In essence, the socio-territorial configuration of neighborhoods is the result of social, political, economic and labor relations established in these territories; hence the importance, according to Santos, of understanding the socio-historical processes that gave rise to the spatial distribution of any city, in which the history of the area, the conditions during the internalization process and the play of relationships between the new and the old make the same global process, as in the phenomenon of international migration, have particular results according to the location in which they take place.
Estando de acuerdo con las variadas concepciones de Área Metropolitana, en este artículo nos referimos a la definición de la Ley General de Urbanismo y Construcciones, Art.