City ideologies in techno-urban imaginaries

Using four major vectors of interest — an open, transdisciplinary character, a critical spirit, a regional vision of global processes and a recovery of planning memories — the new series of Urban is offered as a forum for debate in which the conditions of possibility intrinsic to planning are at stake. Urban has a generalist approach, in which there is room for different narratives, scales and contexts, including all the dimensions related to city and territory. The journal is committed to the promotion of socially just cities, and thus adopts a critical position on the disciplinary drift in recent decades, in which planning has increasingly played a supporting role in governmental projects and modes of production of space that are far removed from its reformist roots. Urban presents a regionalist approach which takes advantage of the privileges of a local perspective as a platform to reappraise and respond to global paradigms. We want this journal to be a meeting point for different urban cultures and techniques, using its privileged geographic position at the crossroads between the global North and South, between Europe, the Mediterranean and Latin America. Finally, the journal does not forget the past of our cities, their citizens and the techniques that have regulated them. We propose to recover the memories of the city and planning, reviving classic and long-forgotten texts and plans, reappraising them critically with a view to promoting a dialogue in which history becomes operative for current interests.