Editorial 47

Abstract

Issue 47 of the CIDADES, Comunidades e Territórios completes the year of 2023 with a thematic dossier devoted to a topic that is at the top of the agenda, placing housing issues in broader contexts and beyond the economic and financial concerns. Entitled “How do we design a habitat? Influence and implications of urban design in territorial, social, economic and environmental sustainability”, this dossier proposes, in the words of guest editors Sara Silva Lopes, João Cunha Borges, Rui del Pino Fernandes and Teresa Marat-Mendes, “(…) to express the complex and multifold aspects that need to be contemplated when approaching the habitat notion”. Throughout its six diversified articles, a very interesting interview with Ermínia Maricato and the timely review of the book Affordable Housing: Planning, Design and Policy Nexus, this dossier offers an overview of the role of urban design in housing and habitat, providing a valuable framework for discussion.