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For two and a half years, risks of contagion have justified restrictions on public life around the world. The essays in this issue examine some of the forces that encroach upon public spaces, whether they are the economic imperatives that govern late capitalist cities or anti‑democratic political regimes that grab common land. The voices in this issue question assumptions about whom or what the monolithic ‘public’ is, advocating spaces that make room for difference. Also featured are the commended projects of the inaugural AR Public awards, which take Architectural Review from Paris, Dhaka, and Guiyuan Village in China, to Singapore, London and Bangkok. Public spaces are complex and often imperfect a ‘versatile, if unevenly distributed, resource escape, to use Architectural Review phrase but as the pandemic continues, it is crucial that designers and publics continue to negotiate them.