Guest editor Stephen J. Ramos introduces the special issue, themed “The Body Politic: Planning History, Design, and Public Health.” The issue has five contributions from Australia, South Africa, Northern Europe, and the United States. Throughout its history, planning is continually tasked with both modernization and reflexive modernization simultaneously. The duality serves as an instrument of the state in the broader governance negotiation of private capital accumulation and public welfare. The contemporary COVID-19 pandemic provides the opportunity to reconsider relationships between planning, design, and public health, and the politics and policies that constitute and mediate these relationships. The hope is for the special issue to inspire empathy for a more civic, international body politic.

客座编辑斯蒂芬·J·拉莫斯（Stephen J. Ramos）介绍了主题为“身体政治：规划历史、设计和公共卫生”的特刊。该问题有来自澳大利亚、南非、北欧和美国的五个贡献。纵观其历史，规划不断地同时承担现代化和反思性现代化的任务。在私人资本积累和公共福利的更广泛治理谈判中，二元性是国家的一种工具。当代 COVID-19 大流行为重新考虑规划、设计和公共卫生之间的关系以及构成和调解这些关系的政治和政策提供了机会。希望这个特刊能够激发人们对更具公民性的国际政治机构的同情。