Our new issue, “Urban Land and Landscapes: Thinking Urban Matters Relationally,” is now live on the Urban Matters website. This special theme compiles insightful texts that, as guest editor Erik Jönsson writes, “shed light on what it means to ponder urban matters as a question that concerns cities’ material landscapes, who owns and shapes these landscapes, and how cities are shaped by socio-ecological processes that simultaneously shape land far beyond cities’ administrative boundaries”.
In the issue, Alva Zalar critically examines the transformation of farmland into the Hyllie neighbourhood in Malmö; Professor Hillary Angelo is featured in an insightful interview with Erik Jönsson; The UNDER team contributes with an analysis of the integration of geosystem services in spatial planning; Miriam Negash provides a detailed narrative of a high-stakes, small-scale architectural competition, revealing the dynamics and outcomes involved; And lastly, Hanna Zetterlund investigates the crucial role of public land ownership in shaping urban futures.
