From Crisis to Crisis: Emergencies and Uncertainties in Large Metropolitan Areas and Cities of Southern Europe

This monographic issue collects the works of researchers who questioned the dynamics of the urban and metropolitan areas of southern Europe in the current framework of crisis (first of all, concerning health, migration and geopolitics). Specifically, starting from the cases of Madrid, Lisbon, Rome, Athens, Valencia, Bari and Lecco, the contributions presented analyse the consequences of this climate of emergency on the social, economic and territorial fabric of the urban and metropolitan contexts and the development of a wide range of solutions addressed to mitigate the uncertainties (e.g., solidarity networks and bottom-up initiatives). The various works make extensive use of cross-scale analyses, a combination of research methodologies and different observation perspectives.