Societal as well as scientific debates have recently been strongly reactivated around the Right to the city. The notion resonates in a specific way in cities of the South, albeit in a very diverse way from city to city. It relates there to the maintaining of a Right to be and to remain in the city, or to the accessing of the city and its resources. In the wake of these contemporary uses of the notion, this thematic issue aims to question the Right to the city in cities of the South by insisting on the legitimacy-building processes that inform and translate into action and in a flexible way the notion of the Right to the city. To do this, the thematic issue focusses on the ordinary practices and daily experiences of urban dwellers who mobilize various tactics and spatialized practices throughout the more mundane times and spaces of their everyday lives in the city. In all the proposed contributions, the emphasis lies less on urban struggles and conflicts than in the questioning of the plurality of ways of taking place in the city as well as in the elaboration of strategies of legitimization based on the use of places, on the reappropriation of the city, or on the practice of everyday life (“Arts de faire”).