This article aims to investigate Sao Paulo's post 1985 locational patterns, with special attention to the development of a wider economic territory, named Sao Paulo's Macrometropolis - constituted by Sao Paulo's Metropolitan Region (SPMR) and its adjoining regions. Its main characteristic is the existence of linkages amongst manufacture and productivity services, in such a pattern that the first tends to become intensive outside SPMR and the second, inside it. A further issue must be noted, however. The manufacture remains highly concentrated in SPMR. In other words, at least in the case of SPMR, the development of productivity services should not be understood as a substitute for manufacture.
São Paulo's Metropolitan Region (SPMR); São Paulo's Macrometropolis; location; space; productive services
