John Walls reflects on Wray and Natarajan’s editorial, from the latest issue on the Power of Plans, and envisions an engine for change.

Ian Wray and Lucy Natarajan present issue 48(4) on the Power of Plans, and the Tri-Structure that helps explains impactful strategies.

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.

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’.

Contributors to the special issue on micromobility, Henna Sundqvist-Andberg, Anu Tuominen and Heidi Auvinen, reflect on how electric scooters, sharing business models and their role in sustainable urban mobility.

Stefania Fiorentino, & Philip Allmendinger, from the Department of Land Economy at the University of Cambridge, reflect on the latest issue of Built Environment and their own work on planning cities post-Covid-19 .

Deike Peters introduces her guest edited issue on Playscapes. Given the past year of zoom gloom and excessive time spent indoors, she asks what exactly constitutes an optimal outdoor playscape and what are the implications of todays urban and suburban environments?

Guest Editors, Nanke Verloo & Diane E. Davis explain how the themes of their special issues (47.1) on Conflict & Urban Change, and are of increasing relevance today.

This piece Dr Hee Sun Choi is a lecturer at Hong Kong Design Institute and co-director of CHOI-COMER ASIA in Hong Kong Inspired by 43.2 'public space & urban justice' & 44.1 'inclusive design', she presents a series of studies about urban public space in Hong Kong. She presents findings from a study of over 160...

Jorge Gil, guest editor of the latest issue of Built Environment, takes a fresh look at the topic of City Information Modelling (CIM) from the perspective of digital planning for sustainable smart cities.