The magazine 'Writingplace Journal for Architecture and Literature' is an international, openaccess, peer-reviewed journal on architecture and literature. This journal is a vehicle for the Writingplace platform to continue its exploration of the productive relationship between architecture and literature. This issue 'Narrative Methods for Writing Urban Places' presents a repertoire of narrative methods for analysis and design that deal with both socially inclusive and locally specific urban places. The issue will be developed in context of the EU COST Action "Writing Urban Places".