ABSTRACT
This chapter outlines the question looking at theoretical references and then illustrates the main strategies proposed in the Strategic Project. Metropolitan cities have become not only central cross-roads, but they are also presenting problems in equal measure for the organisation of contemporary life. While most attention is focused on the territorial, social, political and economic changes that are being produced in urban regions, there is, however, growing concern over the difficulties that metropolitan cities and urban regions are experiencing in the field of governance and local democracy, in their capacity to respond to the needs, emergencies and the living practices of those who dwell in them in different ways and with different rights. It was on the basis of these considerations that the City of Cities Strategic Project brought into play a series of tools and operations designed to introduce innovation into local governance and address the consequences of the disarticulation of the territory, sovereignty, citizenship nexus.
