Within the next decades, we have the chance and the responsibility to co-create our urban futures globally. „Our“, because the city is a collective task, collaboration and participation are key, taking into account also the urban metabolism and urban-rural nexus. „Urban“, because urbanisation is one of the important forces shaping humanity, yet the challenges and opportunities arising from urbanisation are extremely different in the so called global north and global south.  And „futures“ because we first need to dream about alternative pathways, for just, resilient, regenerative and safe cities, we need new place-based visions and the courage to get underway to reach them.