Abstract
This article compiles an initial research reflection that aims to explore the relationship between urban poverty and development, addressing the production process of the urban suburb and the creation of local social currency. The analysis is based on Lefebvre’s classification for the different processes of the production of space together with the distinction between urban, as a process of social emancipation and urban industrial, which uniquely originates from industrial logic. The study attempts to understand social currency from within its potential to question the monetary system (and other aspects of hegemonic logic) and from promoting local changes in economic, social and political relations. Thus, the possibilities of demarcating an urban area where difference and creativity gain strength, grow within the context.
Keywords:
urban suburb; social currency; solidarity economy; endogenous development