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...

Dr Chia-Lin Chen introduces Issue 46.3, and the study of international HSR cases.

Jorge Gil, Guest Editor of the latest issue of Built Environment Vol 46.4 on City Information Modelling (or CIM), reflects on lessons for CIM from the current pandemic and beyond.

Prof. Nicholas Whybrow reviews 'Arts & the City' (Vol 46, no 2) edited by Martin Crookston.

Martin Crookston, editorial board member and guest editor of 'Arts & the City', introduces this next special issue of Built Environment.

Ye Zhang & Jeffrey Kok Hui Chan present their guest edited issue of Built Environment, 46(1) on Space-Sharing Practices in the City, and call for urbanists to rethink how we might reshape sharing and togetherness in space.

Dr Hee Sun Choi presents a pictorial study of public space in Hong Kong. Looking at the four unique spaces, she considers the possibilities of alternative designs.

Iain Roberts shares his experiences of consultation in planning a Councillor in the UK, and reflects on the lessons from this.