Re-Centring the Built Environment and Forms in a Transforming World

Across geographies and disciplines, the built environment is undergoing profound transformation. Urban expansion, demographic shifts, climate pressures, technological acceleration, and changing patterns of mobility continue to reshape how cities grow, how territories adapt, and how individuals experience space. In this moment of global uncertainty and renewal, Built Form reaffirms its commitment to centring the built environment as a critical lens through which contemporary societal change and forms must be understood. Planning, urban design, and architecture are fields concerned with form-making or spatial arrangement on the one hand; they also offer interpretive frameworks for navigating ecological fragility, social complexity, and technological possibility on the other hand. This issue of Built Form brings together contributions that reflect this expanded responsibility. Each article opens new ways of reading and reshaping environments in transition.