It was over 25 years ago that European Urban and Regional Studies was launched at a time of epochal change in the composition of the political, economic and social map of Europe. Brexit has been described as an epochal moment – and at such a moment, European Urban and Regional Studies felt it should offer the space for short commentaries on Brexit and its impact on the relationships of place, space and scale across the cultural, economic, social and political maps of the ‘new Europes’. Seeking contributions drawing on the theories, processes and patterns of urban and regional development, the following provides 10 contributions on Europe, the UK and/or their relational geographies in a post-Brexit world. What the drawn-out and highly contested process of Brexit has done for the populace, residents and ex-pats of the UK is to reveal the inordinate ways in which our mental, everyday and legal maps of the regions, nations and places of the UK in Europe are powerful, territorially and rationally inconsistent, downright quirky at times but also intensely unequal. First, as the UK exits the Single Market, the nature of the political imagination needed to create alternatives to the construction of new borders and new divisions, even within a discourse of creating a ‘global Britain’, remains uncertain. European Urban and Regional Studies has always been a journal dedicated to the importance of pan-European scholarly integration and solidarity and we hope that it will continue to intervene in debates over what alternative imaginings to a more closed and introverted future might look like. Second, as the impacts of COVID-19 continue to change in profound ways how we think, work and travel across European space, we will need to find new forms of integration and new forms of engagament in intellectual life and policy development. European Urban and Regional Studies remains commited to forging such forms.

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欧洲和/或英国：脱欧后城市和区域发展的未来——特刊

25 多年前，欧洲城市和区域研究是在欧洲政治、经济和社会版图的构成发生划时代变化的时候发起的。英国脱欧被描述为一个划时代的时刻——在这样的时刻，欧洲城市和区域研究认为它应该为关于英国脱欧及其对文化、经济、社会领域的地方、空间和规模关系的影响的简短评论提供空间和“新欧洲”的政治地图。寻求借鉴城市和区域发展的理论、过程和模式的贡献，以下提供了关于英国退欧后世界中欧洲、英国和/或它们的关系地理的 10 项贡献。英国退欧旷日持久且备受争议的进程为民众带来了什么，英国的居民和外籍人士将揭示我们在欧洲的英国地区、国家和地方的精神、日常和法律地图强大的过度方式，领土和理性不一致，有时完全古怪但也强烈不等。首先，随着英国退出单一市场，创造新边界和新分裂的替代方案所需的政治想象力的性质仍然不确定，即使在创建“全球英国”的话语中也是如此。欧洲城市和区域研究一直是一本致力于泛欧学术整合和团结的重要性的期刊，我们希望它能够继续参与关于更封闭和内向的未来的替代想象可能是什么样子的辩论。第二，随着 COVID-19 的影响继续以深刻的方式改变我们在欧洲空间的思考、工作和旅行方式，我们将需要在知识生活和政策制定中找到新的融合形式和新的参与形式。欧洲城市和区域研究仍然致力于打造这种形式。