Coping with the Pandemic in Fragile Cities

ISBN-13: 9783030939786 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 100 str.

Gabriele Pasqui

Blurb

This book explores the effects of covid-19 crisis on cities and urban areas

and proposes approaches and solutions to invert the pandemic's negative

impact. The covid-19 crisis has had significant impacts on public health, on

the everyday lives of millions of people, and on the use of urban spaces at

all levels. All over the world, cities have been at the forefront of a crisis

that have worsened socio-spatial inequalities between regions and inside

urban areas. The book examines three aspects of the connection between

pandemic and urban issues: the relevance of spatial and territorial

variables in the explanation of pandemic dynamics and consequences in

fragile cities; the assumption of radical uncertainty as the conceptual

framework for a new approach to urban planning, in a phase of raise of

public investments; and the design of urban policies aimed at facing the

material and symbolic effects of pandemic on the practices of use of spaces

and places, in a context characterized by a plurality of populations and

forms of life.