"Useful Transgressions: Informality, Power, and Urban Life in Ciudad del Este, Paraguay" by Ryan Thomas Devlin metropolitics.org/Useful-Trans...

In case you missed it — "Unexpected Outcomes: Land Ceilings, Rent Control, and the Rise of Real Estate in Bombay" by Nikhil Rao. Rao demonstrates that, paradoxically, Mumbai’s neoliberal real-estate system has its origins in progressive legislation. metropolitics.org/Unexpected-O...

With origins in manufacturing and heavy industry, “digital twins” are increasing within urban planning and governance. As Oskar Steiner demonstrates, while private firms advocate these tools as a way to “let the city speak,” they mostly serve to legitimize those companies’ voices.

New book review — Ryan Thomas Devlin on Jennifer Tucker's "Outlaw Capital": In "Outlaw Capital," Tucker argues that the gray spaces of informality are essential to the vitality of cities, leveraged for different ends by elites and the poor alike. metropolitics.org/Useful-Trans...