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The cities of Porto Alegre and Rosario have been pioneers in implementing citizen participation policies, Participatory Budgeting (pb) being the most symbolic. The aim of this paper is to examine how pb has influenced on the reaffirmation of new centralities and on the bolstering of peripheries of those two cities (1989-2012), analyzing its contribution in terms of social cohesion, through the inclusion of popular sectors.