Specialists from a consortium of five universities, together with other experts, discuss in this book diverse topics regarding European and Latin American urban societies, their dynamic processes and future challenges from an inter-disciplinary perspective. The selected articles in English, French and Spanish deal with public space, urban heritage production, urban social management, citizen re-appropriation of the city, cultural and artistic practices in urban space, migrations, imaginaries, identities as well as literary cartographies of urban spaces in the context of the European network "Urban Dynamics"--back cover.