Cities Learning from a Pandemic: Towards Preparedness

ISBN-13: 9781032147666 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 296 str.

Armondi, Simonetta

Opis

This book is about how cities and territories, within a Continental European context, responded to the COVID-19 pandemic and examines their respective level of preparedness or unpreparedness. It proposes preparedness as a key concept in urban geography, planning, and policy, inviting international scholars to discuss its pros and cons.

Spis treści

1. Introduction Part 1. Interpretations: a theoretical framework and emerging territorial issues　2. The key of preparedness 3. Supporting urban planning to stay with uncertainty: Preparedness, care, and antifragility. 4. Preparedness as a technology of the imagination. Interview with Andrew Lakoff and Frédéric Keck　5. Spatial strategies for getting ready? The weak linkage amid preparedness and urban policy Part 2. Observations: experiences of (un)preparedness in Europe　6. What future for European cities after COVID-19? An international survey　7. Analysis of Madrid’s urban policies in the period 2020-2021. Towards a more resilient post-coronavirus capital? 8. The impacts of the sanitary crisis on the French urban areas and their likely effects on urban policies 9. COVID-19 in the Lombardy region: socio-spatial peripheries and forgotten densities of long-term care　10. Urban and manufacturing after the pandemic, preparing a new ground for the productive city 11. Distributing, desynchronising, digitalising:  towards a new mobile urbanity in the COVID-19 era　12. Changing uses in public spaces: dehors’ supporting measures in Italy in COVID-19 times　13. Housing as a basic infrastructure against risks: the case of COVID-19 housing support measures in Greece　14. Governing pandemics at the local level: the case of COVID-19 in Albania　15. Schools and cities: spaces for solutions　16. Access to essential services. Migrants’ landing during lockdown　17. Urban peripheries after COVID-19 in Italy　18. Afterword: Preparedness supporting the transition