The fifth edition of [TRANS-] Journal considers topia. Topia, derived from the Greek word topos, means place. For some time, places have been the subject of architecture and theory, including the concepts on genius loci, critical regionalism, heterotopias, supermodernity, and the generic city. As such, places may freight phenomenological ideas about a region, visionary social provocations, or dystopic economic or political fictions. As a utopia, place is a space of exception and critique, imagined as an alternative to real or perceived persecution or opportunity. As an e-topia, place is reconfigured by and through efficient technological systems and interfaces. Places have numerous meanings and operate at different scales, such as areas of land, or imagined communities. Taken together, places inspire or caution us against conditions of culture, society, environment, political structures, economic regimes, and emergent technologies. Places can be real or imagined, defined or diffused, lasting or ephemeral.