Research about “Characterizing Physical and Social Compositions of Cities to Inform Climate Adaptation: Case Studies in Germany” was published on 16 December 2021 in Urban Planning journal by University of Stuttgart (Angela Wendnagel‐Beck, Marvin Ravan, Nimra Iqbal, Jörn Birkmann), Foundation for Research and Technology - Hellas (Giorgos Somarakis, Nektarios Chrysoulakis) and University of Reading (Denise Hertwig, Sue Grimmond) urbisphere members. This article is part of the issue “Planning for the Local Impacts of Climate Change: Nobody Left Behind?” edited by Mark Seasons (University of Waterloo, Canada).