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As the Editor-in-Chief of“Frontiers of Architecture Research,”I am glad to see several papers related to urban design published in this issue.These papers explore the urban design theory and practice from different di-mensions and perspectives.Some work studied the rela-tionship between smart cities and empathetic cities.They found that the concept of smart cities mainly focuses on technology and efficiency.However,social justice and people-oriented requires more attention.This work pro-posed that future cities need to follow the empathy principle of participatory governance.Another work focused on analyzing the rational layout of large-scale commercial facilities in cities through digital means.Re-searchers from the University of Jordan analyzed pedes-trian activities'connectivity and visualization of Arab city communities form in Damascus,using syntactic measure-ment.Additional work pointed out that urban design should combine the physical distribution of buildings with the social structure,based on the gravity theory of the life center from Professor Alexander.This work revealed the positive role and significance in promoting the vitality of places and urban squares.The last work,in a very inter-esting perspective,describes the 20-year-design practice of a design agency in Nanjing,which partially presents the changes in the type,scale,and theme of Chinese urban design in different periods.