https://metropolitics.org/ Favoriser les débats et confronter les savoirs et les savoir-faire sur la ville, l'architecture et les territoires. en SPIP - www.spip.net https://metropolitics.org/local/cache-vignettes/L144xH20/siteon0-bf96f.png?1760617828 https://metropolitics.org/ 20 144 https://metropolitics.org/Useful-Transgressions.html https://metropolitics.org/Useful-Transgressions.html 2026-02-17T06:00:00Z text/html en Ryan Thomas Devlin informality Latin America South America Global South Paraguay Ciudad del Este neoliberalism capitalism urbanism urbanization gray spaces informal urbanism urban governance <p>Urban informality has been theorized as a process operating at the edges and margins under capitalist urbanization. Yet Outlaw Capital argues that the gray spaces of informality are essential to the vitality of cities, leveraged for different ends by elites and the poor alike. <br class='autobr' /> On the Paraguay side of the Paraná River in Ciudad del Este, smugglers load up small boats with things like electronics and cigarettes bound for the opposite shore and eventually for consumers in Brazil, bypassing</p> - <a href="https://metropolitics.org/-Reviews-.html" rel="directory">Reviews</a> / <a href="https://metropolitics.org/+-informality-+.html" rel="tag">informality</a>, <a href="https://metropolitics.org/+-Latin-America-+.html" rel="tag">Latin America</a>, <a href="https://metropolitics.org/+-South-America-+.html" rel="tag">South America</a>, <a href="https://metropolitics.org/+-Global-South-+.html" rel="tag">Global South</a>, <a href="https://metropolitics.org/+-Paraguay-+.html" rel="tag">Paraguay</a>, <a href="https://metropolitics.org/+-Ciudad-del-Este-+.html" rel="tag">Ciudad del Este</a>, <a href="https://metropolitics.org/+-neoliberalism-+.html" rel="tag">neoliberalism</a>, <a href="https://metropolitics.org/+-capitalism-+.html" rel="tag">capitalism</a>, <a href="https://metropolitics.org/+-urbanism-+.html" rel="tag">urbanism</a>, <a href="https://metropolitics.org/+-urbanization-+.html" rel="tag">urbanization</a>, <a href="https://metropolitics.org/+-gray-spaces-+.html" rel="tag">gray spaces</a>, <a href="https://metropolitics.org/+-informal-urbanism-+.html" rel="tag">informal urbanism</a>, <a href="https://metropolitics.org/+-urban-governance-+.html" rel="tag">urban governance</a>