On the Tracks of Contemporary European Urbanism

A Planum’s Specia Issue presents the magazine’s Scientific Committee via a selection of texts representing the cultural profile and research activities of its members. The contributions collected do not aim to either delimit or define the field of practices and studies in contemporary urbanism. Rather, the variety of empirical, design, and theoretical research paths in this collection that document the numerous questions expressing the field of urbanism in this phase can only be partially ascribed to differences in geographical or cultural context or, on the other hand, in recognized research traditions. In this sense, the implicit hypothesis that this collection advances - not by design, but not by chance, either - is that the research paths, that is, the reflexive and objective practices represented here offer a meaningful cross section of this disciplinary field.