‘Security’ and private governance in São Paulo’s corporate centrality frontier

• Published in: Urban studies (Edinburgh, Scotland) Vol. 61; no. 14; pp. 2817 - 2834
• Main Author: De Biaggi, Gabriella DD
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: London, England SAGE Publications 01.11.2024; Sage Publications Ltd
• Subjects: Center and periphery; City centres; Fieldwork; Governance; Police; Regulation; Rules; Security; Segregation; Statistical analysis; Statistics; Transformation; Urban areas; corporate centrality; securitisation; urban frontier; 安保化; 城市前沿; 企业中心; São Paulo; 私人治理; 圣保罗; private governance

In the last half-century, the ‘centre–periphery’ model has become insufficient to describe the increasingly fragmented and multicentric Latin American metropolises. Frontiers between central and peripheral areas are shifting, in part, due to the emergence of new corporate centralities, usually locat...