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This issue deals with Use and Reuse, with a focus on transformation of buildings and urban artefacts, regeneration and reuse of urban landscapes, redevelopment of cities or parts thereof as well as the clever reuse of products we use in our cities. It brings together information from diverse places: the temporary settlements of the Saharawis in western Sahara, an abandoned ensemble of buildings in Tijara, Rajasthan, the ancient island of Malta in the Mediterranean, Cape Town in South Africa and the former industrial heartland of the Ruhr in Germany. All these articles share an important message. That creative reuse of what is old and what seems to have outlived its utility is something we ought to cherish because it is often very sustainable. Such creative reuse also serves the purpose of exposing layers of history, making our cities more meaningful and strengthening their identities.