ABSTRACT
This chapter analyzes the “towns in the forest”, created to support the great projects or “great economical objects” implanted in the Amazon in the second half of the twentieth century; such towns were also called company towns or cidades-empresa. The discussion is inspired in theoretical reflections elaborated by the Brazilian geographer Milton Santos when conceptualizing a theorization of space and, similarly, when proposing a reflection able to comprehend the Brazilian territory of the period, which he called informational technical-scientific, and its respective spatial correspondent, the informational technical-scientific environment.
