The Impact of COVID on Cities and Regions

Policy Responses of Local Leaders

Peter K. Kresl, Mattia Bertin (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

236 Seiten

2023
Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd (Verlag)
978-1-0353-0894-1 (ISBN)

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The recent COVID-19 pandemic has arguably caused some of the most noticeable and influential societal and economic changes since World War Two. This path-breaking book investigates these changes and the subsequent responses of urban policy makers.

Chapters offer keen insights into the methods differing urban regions have utilized to cope with their changing economic circumstances. With a global scope, the book focuses on the various significant impacts of the pandemic including effects on the employment of women and minorities, central city vitality, and the futures of small or isolated regions. Ultimately, it examines how policy makers are dealing with the prospective decline of social categories and of the vitality of their cities.

Students and academics of such disciplines as urban policy, economic geography and public policy will find the conclusions offered by this book to be imperative for the development of current research agendas. It will additionally be beneficial for policy makers working in urban and regional government bodies.

Edited by Peter Karl Kresl, Charles P. Vaughan Professor of Economics Emeritus, Bucknell University, US and Mattia Bertin, Adjunct Professor in Urban Planning and Design and in Disaster Planning and Post-disaster Rebuilding, Università Iuav di Venezia, Italy

Contents:

Introduction to The Impact of COVID on Cities and Regions ix
Ed Blakely and Peter Karl Kresl

PART I IMPACT AND RESPONSE
1 Post-COVID-19 Australian urban settlement: rebuild or
reposition the nation? 2
Ed Blakely
2 Impact and response in cities and regions: Pennsylvania
and New York 15
Peter Karl Kresl
3 Why we don’t learn: COVID’s impact on cities’
architecture is not being considered in new building developments 32
Mattia Bertin

PART II CITIES AND REGIONS
4 Voices from the villages: non-urban territories facing
post-COVID recovery 46
Daniele Ietri
5 The reshaping of work and (post-COVID) urban
competitiveness in mid-sized metropolises: the case of Porto 58
Luís Carvalho and Sabrina Sgambati
6 Socio-economic dimensions of inclusiveness of smart
cities in India in a post-pandemic era 74
Shaleen Singhal and Madhurima Waghmare
7 Post-COVID cities: some reflections on planning in
uncertain times 92
Javier Ruiz Sánchez and Inés Aquilué Junyent

PART III SPECIFIC ISSUES
8 The impact of COVID in Québec: telework, coworking
and their effects on work and city environments 111
Diane-Gabrielle Tremblay
9 Consequences of COVID-19 on the Barcelona labour market 129
Joan Trullén and Vittorio Galletto
10 Changes in the labor market by type of city in Mexico
during the COVID pandemic, 2020–2021 145
Isela Orihuela
11 Working in and for the city with smartness: first partial
results from the European project IrSmart 161
Gianfranco Franz
12 Spatial differences in morbidity and mortality from
COVID-19 in Mexico: a regional and metropolitan analysis 179
Jaime Sobrino
13 Frugal innovation in the 1.5-metre society: analysis of the
hospitality sector in the metropole region Rotterdam–The Hague 197
Erwin van Tuijl, Leo van den Berg, Koen Dittrich and
Daniele Rossi-Doria

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Erscheinungsdatum	05.10.2023
Reihe/Serie	Cities series
Verlagsort	Cheltenham
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Themenwelt	Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geografie / Kartografie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Staat / Verwaltung
	Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre
ISBN-10	1-0353-0894-0 / 1035308940
ISBN-13	978-1-0353-0894-1 / 9781035308941
Zustand	Neuware