For some years now, urban planning has begun to reflect on the habitability of cities, in an evolution of the sustainable paradigm marked by two focuses: the resilience of cities in the face of situations of risk or disaster and their potential as generators of well-being, incorporating a broad vision of urban health. However, the echo of the nineteenth century hygienism, which was a determining factor in the construction of modern urbanism, reappears with the pandemic and recalls the question of the healthy city, its structural conditions, form, function, and governance. Raising this subject for the issue 25 of the journal Ciudades, whose publication is scheduled in 2022, has the advantage of the perspective that time will provide, in the hope that the tragedy in which we are immersed today has been overcome, while at the same time progress will have been made in reflection and analysis.

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