The urban remote sensing community is a dynamic and interdisciplinary network working on various aspects of urban analysis. This network has its focal point at the biennial event JURSE (Joint Urban Remote Sensing Event). JURSE is a forum of excellence where researchers, practitioners and students present, share and discuss their latest findings and results. The 2019 edition took place in Vannes, France, from May 22nd to May 24th, 2019, featuring keynotes from Xiaoxiang Zhu, Karen Seto, Florence Tupin and Philippe Clergeau, numerous methodological and thematic special sessions, pre-event technical tutorials and hackathon, a contest on urban climatology, some paper awards and finally an exciting 3 minutes thesis competition. JURSE 2019 introduced innovative methodologies and technological resources recently employed to investigate the manifold aspects of the urban environment through orbital and airborne remote sensing data. At the moment, the rapid innovations towards artificial intelligence seems to create a new paradigm. These methodological approaches are indeed very powerful in image analysis and in linking heterogeneous data sets. However, associated algorithms only give us more geoinformation but still fail in providing easily accessible, robust and reliable outputs of guiding decisions of urban actors such as urban planners. During these three rich days of exchanges, we observed this increasing importance of topics related to possibilities of recent neural networks approaches, but we also noticed an important contribution of new sensors (UAV, LiDAR, etc) to provide a finer understanding of urban environments. In addition to these methodological aspects, we noticed particular focuses on urban thermal patterns and detection of complex morphologies, associated with poverty and slums in the Global South in particular.