METROPOLISATION VERSUS MID-SIZED CITIES.THE INCOMPATIBILITY OF THE RISE OF MID-SIZED CITIES IN THE CURRENT PHASE OF URBANIZATION OF THE COLOMBIAN POPULATION

The notion of mid-sized city most frequently used is the population size and its intertemporal growth and, in a complementary way, its functionality. In this paper it is argued that the nature of this phenomenon is different when detected in a metropolitan environment than when it occurs in a relatively isolated manner. A mid-sized city is one that occupies an intermediate position in the urban hierarchy of a country. That is why when the process of metropolization of the population has not reached maturity, it is unlikely that there will be a bifurcation of urbanization towards a mid-sized city or towards a set of these.