Radical Renewal

Editor: Anna Dorothea Ker

What might our cities and neighbourhoods look and feel like in a decade’s time? Our series 'Radical Renewal' shifts this question beyond its usual remit of city planners and futurists to voices from diverse contexts and fields. Its title nods to the intensive designing, regulating and constructing that is reshaping and urban landscapes worldwide. How can we reconcile tensions between preservation and gentrification? And as transformation accelerates, who decides what’s taken forward, and what’s left behind?