Introduction to the special issue: between practices and policies. Rethinking urban regeneration in Southern European cities after the crisis

This Special Issue explores new approaches to urban regeneration, and potentially give new meanings to the term itself, as it appears in the context of austerity urbanism. In particular, the aim of this Special Issue is to offer a Southern European perspective of the nexus between the withdrawal of the State from urban governance, and of the new forms of cooperation arising from civil society, thus presenting original research material, and innovative perspectives, for current debates in urban studies.