production of spaces of informal housing in the Metropolis of Curitiba

The paper presents explores the role played by slums and illegal settlements in the restructuring of irregular metropolis of Curitiba from of the 1990s. It is shown that this phenomenon, characterized by new center-periphery relations and the formation of a metropolis more dispersed, with extended and more complex structure, heterogeneous and fragmented, plays a major role in producing new forms of informal housing areas. The paper contributes to a broader interpretation of socio-spatial transformations experienced by Brazilian metropolises in the past decades and, thus, contributes to knowledge about the production of space these clusters nowadays.