The Post-growth Turn & the Role of Planning
Dan Durrant introduces issue 51(1) on the theme of post-growth, offering reflections about the contributors’ agenda and drivers for engagement with the new direction for planning.
By Dan Durrant 8 Feb 2025
50 Years of Inclusion in the Built Environment
As part of the Golden Anniversary celebrations, I reviewed a half decade of Built Environment contributions on the theme of Inclusion. This involved revisiting an expansive set of works that touched on inclusive urban design and spaces as well as the ways to greater equity in cities, and the violence of exclusive practices...
11 Nov 2024
The Power of Plans podcasts - Shenzhen, Dublin and New York
In a mini-series of podcasts, guest editors Wray & Natarajan join podcast guru Sam Stafford and three case study authors from the Special Issue on the Power of Plans.
30 Aug 2023
Unravelling the relationship between urban planning and public health
Urban Planning & Public Health' Guest Editors introduce the enormously relevant articles and themes of Special Issue 49 (1).
13 Aug 2023
Domestic Destruction: Violent Acts towards Self-Built Homes in Cairo and Los Angeles
This blog ‘Domestic Destruction’ on the violence around housing builds on the framings of violence in issue 40(3) Urban Violence and 37(1) Informal Urbanism, both guest-edited by our very own Editorial Board member, Yasser Elsheshtawy. Blog authors, University of Columbia Graduates Polina Stepanova (MArch) and Catherine...
24 Jul 2023
Surge Webinar: Public Spaces of the Global North & South
HOSTING THE BUILT ENVIRONMENT SPECIAL ISSUE: PUBLIC SPACES OF THE GLOBAL NORTH AND SOUTH In 2023, the Southern Urbanism Research Group Ensemble (SURGE) continues with its webinar series. This series brings together Southern scholars, practitioners and activists from the global South. Date: 08/06/2023 – Time 8.00 Mexico...
18 May 2023
An engine for ‘The Power of Plans’
John Walls reflects on Wray and Natarajan’s editorial, from the latest issue on the Power of Plans, and envisions an engine for change.
23 Feb 2023
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The Plans That Work
Ian Wray and Lucy Natarajan present issue 48(4) on the Power of Plans, and the Tri-Structure that helps explains impactful strategies.
13 Jan 2023
Urban Science for augmented cities
What is Urban Science? How does urban science differ from other kinds of science, or other kinds of urban knowledge? And how could urban science help support understanding of urban fields including the built environment? Prof Stephen Marshall explains in this blog.
23 Nov 2022
A waltz or a tango? Public spaces in the Global North and South
In this blog Karina Landman and Christine Mady – guest editors of 48.2 Public Spaces in the Global North and South – reflect on the global diversity urban public space, and the back and forth of the social partners as they ‘dance’.
5 Sep 2022