Introducing ‘Inclusive Recovery from Crises and Disasters’
Blog co-authors reflect on their contributions to Special Issue 52(1) - they emphasise that participation in recovery is not the same as consultation, and inclusive recovery needs action, delivery and the collective shaping of more just and resilient futures.
By Camerin, Córdoba Hernández, Grelle, Hassan, Lancrenon, Natarajan & Panayotopoulos-Tsiros 23 Mar 2026
Perspectives on Urban Greenspace: Is the Grass Really Greener Now 20 Years On?
Kirk Enu, contributor to 51/4, comments on the issue and reflects on the hopeful as well as the more sobering insights.
17 Dec 2025
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.
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
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
Will Covid-19 change the way we live in our cities?
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 .
4 Nov 2021











