Guest Editors' Foreword: Games, Play, and the Urban

[...]we need a more processual and contextual approach. The articles in this issue specifically address such challenges in the context of the experience of play in contemporary urbanized cultures-from the game Night in the Woods, where a return to postindustrial suburbia is linked to social inequality and well-being, to the experience of the urban as a curated space through playful artistic interventions to playful mapping as an urban (or even posturban) experience. The COVID-19 pandemic, which continues to worsen as we write, has only further highlighted the vital importance of play, face-to-face social interaction, diversity, and equality for urban public life by constraining the freedom to move and act of so many (de Luca 2020; Du, King, and Chanchani 2020; Ducharme 2020).