Editorial 22

Abstract

Cidades, Comunidades e Territórios is starting a new period in its history. Issue 22 is thus a symbolic milestone that we would like to mark in all its different meanings. At its inception, the founding of Cidades in late 2000 represented the culmination of a remarkable period of intense work on urban studies, which had begun twenty years earlier at ISCTE. This pathway was pursued by several generations of a team of highly qualified scholars, researchers and skilled technicians integrated in different public institutions who increasingly recognized Centro de Estudos Territoriais as the main centre of their scientific activities since 1991.