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 located outside historical city centres and heavily equipped with private ‘security’ agents and devices. By examining the evolving governing practices taking place in and around the dynamic frontier of a business centrality in São Paulo, Brazil, this article discusses the connections between the transformation in centre–periphery relations and the reworking of prior forms of socio-spatial control since the ‘security’ turn of the 1990s. More specifically, it explores the effects of the production of securitised corporate centralities on the racialised differential governance of urban space. For this purpose, the article draws from empirical work involving fieldwork, interviews with public and private ‘security’ agents, the observation of meetings of the local Public Security Community Council (CONSEG), and the analysis of police statistics. In sum, the argument presented here is that the evolution of segregation mechanisms and governing practices in Latin-American metropolises reproduces centre–periphery relations under new spatial configurations, and increases the capacity of private agents to subject urban space to their own rules and regulations.

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圣保罗企业中心前沿的“安全”和私人治理

近半个世纪以来，“中心-边缘”模型已经不足以描述日益碎片化、多中心的拉美大都市。中心和外围地区之间的边界正在发生变化，部分原因是新的企业中心的出现，这些中心通常位于历史悠久的城市中心之外，并配备了大量的私人“安全”代理和设备。通过考察巴西圣保罗商业中心动态前沿及其周围不断演变的治理实践，本文讨论了自 20 世纪 90 年代以来中心与外围关系的转变与先前社会空间控制形式的改造之间的联系。 20 世纪 90 年代的“安全”时代。更具体地说，它探讨了证券化企业中心地位的产生对城市空间种族化差异治理的影响。为此，本文借鉴了实证工作，包括实地调查、对公共和私人“安全”人员的采访、对当地公共安全社区委员会（CONSEG）会议的观察以及对警方统计数据的分析。总之，这里提出的论点是，拉丁美洲大都市隔离机制和治理实践的演变在新的空间配置下再现了中心与外围的关系，并提高了私人代理人使城市空间服从自己的规则和条例的能力。