Vol. 14 No. 19 (2022): TAKING CARE OF THE SPACE, BUILDING AND SOCIETY

“A deep desire dominates us: we still want to have cities where we can live as Aristotle says not only safe and healthy but also happy” Bruno Taut.   The concept of care related to the cities and built environment we live in, whether urban, rural or architectural ones, has been broadly investigated in different times and disciplines. Nowadays, it is a current topic driven by climate change and the public health events that have become mainstream in recent years. Important political events such as COP26 in Glasgow suggest to urgently act with novel solutions that are no longer linked to a single area of knowledge, but with collective and a systemic approach of interdependence. We need each other to transform human and space conflicts into opportunities for caring our planet. The current human and urban contested environment, where values, convictions and behaviors define a complex panorama, claims for new paradigms of living together.  This issue aims to reflect and create a dialogue on how taking care of the landscape, cities, urban and rural settlements, processes and architectural projects that generate contemporary habitat; but also, to care of each other, of the communities and, therefore, of public health, a fundamental condition that gives meaning to the quality of the built environment.