Abstract
The goal of this work is to analyse the process of creating a nodal region in western Mexico, with centre in the city of Guadalajara and determined by the models of national development. The attraction of migratory flows from western Mexico towards Guadalajara and the supply of traditional manufactures and specialized community services, were the factors that determined the economic and demographic primacy of Guadalajara during the import substitution industrialization. However, when other urban centres emerge in the region, Guadalajara loses primacy and it is restructured towards the modern industry and business services, activities that are linked to the global economy. This way the current urbanization tendencies are associated with the centrality and the economic specialization of the main cities of the region, partly fuelled by the global economy.
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