Vol. 16 No. 22 (2023): CRISIS SPACE OR CRISIS OF SPACE?

Our current era is strongly characterized by crises of significant gravity and urgency. Deep economic and political crises, pandemic wars, and social upheavals all have a direct impact on the wellbeing of people in their own homes as well as on the urban and territorial scales. A small sample of the numerous effects of these events includes changes in human mobility, the food system, labor market accessibility, and access to decent housing.

The current issues display the urban and architectural context and raise concerns about the sociospatial, aesthetic, and technical approaches to take for defining public and private spaces.

This issue calls for a reflection on the new or renewed frontiers of (i) the conceptualized, designed, and calculated spaces and buildings that reflect the complexity of contemporary living; (ii) the proposals for the management and planning of territory and cities focused on sustainability and resilience; and, finally, (iii) the cultural scenarios that depict the material and immaterial heritage of our contexts, essential components for bolstering local identity in these times.