| Summary: | This research note seeks to present a theoretical-methodological problematization of an urban project: the DistritoTec (2012-2025) in Monterrey, Nuevo León. Achieving this problematization requires making an epistemological break not only from the object pre-constructed from the legitimizing narratives of the DistritoTec project and the city as an obvious scale, but also from the fetish concepts (such as gentrification and accumulation by dispossession) that have become an academic commonplace for the social sciences. From this perspective, the DistrictoTec can be understood not as an “urban regeneration” project, but as part of the historical strategies of social reproduction of the local business elite, specifically through the spatialization of its ethos and the updating of its paternalistic practices.
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