As planners and urbanists continue to debate urban reforms needed to achieve humanist ideals – including just forms of sustainability – several different schools of thought are vying for influence, including cultural urbanism (celebrating the everyday, temporal, occasional, and timeless), pluralist urbanism (aiming for a co-produced city that is more democratic, participatory, and open-ended), and inclusive urbanism (focusing on the right to the city and its accommodations for all populations). Here, we examine feminist urbanism – the specific challenge of gender-equal spaces, particularly public spaces – as a model framework that suggests how the other schools of thought can be combined and translated into practical action. We focus on the nature and importance of public space and the role of gender inclusiveness in assuring public spaces that are more broadly open, participatory, pluralist, and supportive of temporal and everyday activities. We thus find that the emerging concept of feminist urbanism reveals essential issues for a wider humanist urbanism – in particular, who the city is meant to serve and whether the public realm is equitably ‘public’ to all its users. We note major remaining questions and research lacuna to be investigated, and we conclude with several policy and design recommendations.

Urban landscapes are increasingly understood as dynamic systems in which natural, cultural, and socio-spatial layers continuously overlap and evolve. Within this perspective, heritage and memory are often treated as stable qualities of place, to be preserved or restored amid ongoing urban transformation. This paper challenges that static understanding by advancing memory-in-transformation, a theoretical framework positioned within the broader concept of Temporal Urbanism. Drawing on an integrative synthesis of landscape theory, critical heritage studies, memory studies, and urban theory, the paper argues that urban landscape transformation does not simply affect heritage and memory but actively produces, reconfigures, and redefines them over time. The framework rests on three interrelated dimensions: temporal layering, mediated interpretation, and dialectical production, through which transformation operates as a mediating process linking spatial change, collective memory, and the continuous formation of heritage landscapes. Illustrative cases (Superkilen, Copenhagen; the Slussen redevelopment, Stockholm) show how transformation can destabilize existing heritage while generating new heritage systems. The paper further introduces the notion of temporal justice, foregrounding whose memories are sustained or marginalized in processes of change, and outlines new directions for research and practice in heritage urbanism, land-use planning, landscape architecture, and sustainable urban development.

Public participation has long occupied a central position within planning and design theory. From Arnstein’s seminal work on citizen participation to collaborative planning, co-production, and contemporary participatory design approaches, scholars and practitioners have increasingly recognized the importance of involving citizens and users in shaping urban environments. Despite these advances, participation continues to be understood predominantly as an episodic and project-based activity associated with specific interventions, workshops, or consultation processes. Relatively limited attention has been devoted to the temporal dimensions of participation and to how users, places, meanings, and needs evolve over time. This study argues that time remains one of the least-explored dimensions of participatory planning and design. Building on literature from planning theory, participatory design, commons scholarship, care studies, and emerging work on temporality, the study proposes participatory temporal urbanism as a conceptual framework for understanding participation as an ongoing and evolving relationship rather than as a discrete event. The framework introduces five interrelated dimensions: co-creation, deliberation, co-management, co-adaptation, and co-memory. Drawing on concepts such as stewardship, commoning, maintenance, and care, the study further argues that sustainable urban development requires forms of participation that extend beyond implementation and continue throughout the life cycle of places. Particular attention is given to deliberative approaches, including the jury principle associated with New Urbanism, and to the role of participatory design in accommodating changing social, cultural, and intergenerational needs. By introducing time as a central analytical category, the study contributes to ongoing debates on participatory planning and participatory design and offers a new framework for understanding the collective processes through which sustainable cities can be collectively shaped, maintained, and continuously reinterpreted over time.

Many global cities and towns have experienced unprecedented economic, social, and spatial structural change in recent decades. Today, we find ourselves between a post-urban and a post-political world, presenting new challenges to our metropolitan regions, municipalities, and cities. Many megacities, declining regions, and towns are experiencing an increase in complex problems regarding internal relationships, governance, and external connections. In particular, a growing disparity exists between socially excluded citizens within declining physical and economic realms and those in thriving geographic areas. This conceptual and analytical paper, which falls in the areas of urban economics, city planning, urbanism, and economic geography, conveys how forces of structural change shape the urban landscape. In this paper, we discuss the Post Urban World Paradigm from different theoretical standpoints and various methodological approaches and perspectives; this is alongside the challenges and new solutions for cities and regions in an interconnected world of global economies. A short reflection is also given on the conceptual clarification of Trans urbanism, Post Urban World & Beyond as well as the important idea and urban phenomenon of Regional Cities. The paper also takes a unique perspective on Social Capital and the Phenomenon of Third (Public) Places in Post-Urban Regions, but not going deeper into the issue. The discussion and position paper are aimed at academic researchers interested in regional development, economic geography, and urban studies and practitioners and policymakers in urban development.

This reflective paper explores the unique relationship between cinema and urbanism, illustrating how films offer a rich and multifaceted lens for understanding urban environments. Reflecting on a range of films, particularly Blade Runner and The Truman Show, the paper demonstrates how cinema captures and critiques cultural and social norms, represents urban spaces, and influences perceptions of architecture and urban design, especially in pedagogical contexts within urbanism university programs. These two movies have also been chosen as they represent paradigmatic cases on which analysis of new and post-urbanism has been done in urbanism studios. The paper emphasizes the pivotal role of films in shaping and reflecting our understanding of urban environments. The main crux and objective of the paper is the exploration and highlights of the educational value of films in urban studies, particularly within two master’s programs, offering insights into cities’ spatial dimensions and reflections on urban forms’ social life. The study integrates key scholarly perspectives and new cinematic urbanism pedagogics (a seven-step methodology developed in the studios). By weaving together these perspectives, this essay underscores the multifaceted relationship between cinema and urbanism, demonstrating how films can serve as powerful tools for understanding and shaping urban environments and the complex social life of urban forms. The paper ends with general conclusions and recommendations for policy and practice.