Editorial on the Research Topic Social-ecological urbanism: Developing discourse, institutions and urban form for the design of resilient social-ecological systems in citiesThe concept Social-Ecological Urbanism (SEU) was launched by the publication of the book Principles for Social-Ecological Urbanism in 2013 (Barthel et al., 2013). SEU is increasingly used by researchers to improve resilience in the urban built environment. The approach is positioned at the interface of urban ecology and urban design (Marcus and Colding, 2014;Colding et al., 2022). It points out how resilience in interlinked social and ecological urban systems can be addressed through informed design of institutions and urban form, both shaped by urban discourse. A key tenet is that a deeper understanding of how discourse, institutions and urban form connect to selforganising urban systems, can help create the conditions for social-ecological outcomes in accordance with political goals and aims on sustainability. SEU offers a far broader conception of urban sustainability than current discourses, by addressing cities on the relevant systems level, where, moreover, social, economic and ecological urban systems are combined. Humans become co-creators of nature in SEU through the integration and management of ecosystem services. SEU integrates and aligns ecological and social services in various urban design projects and adopts social-ecological resilience thinking as a guiding design principle.