ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses urban governance in Southern Italy focusing on the difficulties in giving actual meaning to innovative urban policies, especially to initiatives promoted and/or funded by the EU. It describes which contributed to abandon the framework of the Italian Mezzogiorno as a whole and to consider this area both within the EU and the Mediterranean. The chapter explains the possibility to relate these outcomes to the specific profiles of Southern Italian cities by investigating their participation in EU initiatives and networks is analysed referring to a case-study about Apulia region cities. It concerning multilevel governance and the coexistence of 'old' and 'new' in Southern Italian cities. The chapter investigates the features of these processes, in the following section we refer to cities located in a distinct Southern Italy region, Apulia, and we analyse their involvement in EU Structural Funds policies.
