This introductory article to the present collection outlines a comparative research perspective that focuses on processes of post‐socialist urban transformation and strategies of urban regeneration in different cities of Central Eastern Europe. In particular, urban regeneration will be...

<italic>The current increase in socio-spatial inequalities in Europe has led to a revival of the terms "peripheralization" and "marginalization" in spatial research. In contrast to the geographical notion of a "periphery", which is synonymous with distance to a centre and being situated on the fringes...</italic>