New spaces, placed in the heart of European cities, are now inhabited by immigrants population mostly made of refugees and asylum seekers. It’s a stage of the migration process that will run through a transmission of more and more visitors. Despite this, urban planning doesn’t seem to care much about the spatialization of these phenomena as instead it has historically cared in relation to the presence of new populations in the cities. Of course, current conditions raise another story, different in all respect to the past, but, as it was in the past, contemporary migrations are building new spaces and changing the city. This report refers about this change from an inquiry carried out on the reception spaces for the refugees and asylum seekers in the city of Turin. Some recurring features invite us to redefine a whole debate on the city and its project
Keywords: Immigrants; refugees; urban planning