Coping with the Pandemic in Fragile Cities

This book explores the effects of covid-19 crisis on cities and urban areasand proposes approaches and solutions to invert the pandemic's negativeimpact. The covid-19 crisis has had significant impacts on public health, onthe everyday lives of millions of people, and on the use of urban spaces atall levels. All over the world, cities have been at the forefront of a crisisthat have worsened socio-spatial inequalities between regions and insideurban areas. The book examines three aspects of the connection betweenpandemic and urban issues: the relevance of spatial and territorialvariables in the explanation of pandemic dynamics and consequences infragile cities; the assumption of radical uncertainty as the conceptualframework for a new approach to urban planning, in a phase of raise ofpublic investments; and the design of urban policies aimed at facing thematerialand symbolic effects of pandemic on the practices of use of spacesand places, in a context characterized by a plurality of populations andforms of life.