The recent shift from the Millennium Development Goals to the Sustainable Development Goals scored a point of no return in the international debate on development, stating that the separation between the rich part and the poor part of the population is no longer with the North and the South of the world but between nearby areas in always more highly polarized contexts.

A deeper knowledge of the spatial dimension of poverty and of its spatial implications would allow to understand and define new paradigm of development and multiscalar actions for the city.
In the United States, thanks to the passionate work of Ananya Roy (Institute on Inequality and Democracy, UCLA Luskin), this knowledge found its place in the university program at the Institute of Urban and Regional Development of UC Berkeley and in Los Angeles, being highly appreciated both by students and NGOs.
The workshop Urban Poverty. The praxis of planning in uniqual cities is an opportunity for opening theory and practices of research and urban planning to issues of poverty and inequality in our cities. It will take advantage from the collaboration of experts in different but complementary disciplines.