From the beginning of the 1980’s and until the end of the 1990´s, the Venezuelan urban dynamic showed a clear reduction of the relative importance of Caracas, together with the inroads of four middle cities, becoming the most dynamic centres of the urban ensemble, receptors of the main investments, endowed of financialand politic autonomy, and with a great capacity to lead their respective regions, we name them “intermediate cities”. Since that time, Venezuela had undergone the following transformations: 1) excessive centralization and state intervention in the economy; 2) changes in the foreign economic policy and its role in the international forum; 3) intent of changing the spatial distribution of the population and the investment in the territory; 4) implementation of a “socialist” orientation, in order to change the prevalent dynamicsin the different ambits of society.