All rights reservedBriata, Paola2024-04-012024-04-012010978-80-01-05782-7https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14235/1500Book of proceedings: Annual AESOP Congress, 2010 Space is Luxury, Aalto, July 7-10thThe paper examines the regeneration strategies carried out in the last 10-15 years in three multi-ethnic areas in Brescia, Genoa and Turin (North Italy). These cities have all been important industrial centres and, in recent years, the economic restructuring of the post-industrial age has led their leaderships and policy makers to invest in visitor economy. The paper aims at rendering problematic an assumption circulating among academics and planners stating that, in these contexts, regeneration and urban renewal policies have been addressed only at the immigrants’ expulsion from the cities’ more central areas. In fact different approaches could be found in the different cities according to the peculiarities of their development strategies, to the public debate on immigration proposed at local level, as well as to the more or less strategic role given to integration policies of the disadvantaged groups, independently from their national origin.EnglishopenAccessurban regenerationmulti-ethnic contextsNorth ItalyconferenceObject590-604