Working from home, online shopping, undertourism: the disruptive upheavals caused by the COVID-19 pandemic challenge architecture and urban planning. New spaces for action are opening up, but are they being utilized? From dividing traffic space fairly to urban food policies, from new places for work and recreation to the question on how communities can be oriented towards the common good: Post-pandemic Urbanism envisions a near future and discusses how cities and their transformative power can help to handle this current crisis and those to come.

Doris Kleilein is an architect, author, and publisher in Berlin. In 2005, she co-founded the architectural office bromsky. From 2005 to 2018, she worked as editor of Bauwelt and Stadtbauwelt, and since 2019 has directed the publishing house JOVIS in Berlin, specialized on books in urbanism and architecture. Friederike Meyer is a journalist and publicist. She studied architecture in Aachen and Seattle and journalism at the Evangelische Medienakademie in Berlin. She worked as editor for Bauwelt, guest editor at Hochparterre, lecturer in architectural communication in Kaiserslautern and has been editor-in-chief at Baunetz.de since 2017.