Full Description
The COVID-19 pandemic was not a great 'equaliser', but rather an event whose impact intersected with pre-existing inequalities affecting different people, places, and geographic scales. Nowhere is this more apparent than in housing.
Written by an international group of experts, this book casts light on how the virus has impacted the experience of home and housing through the lens of wider urban processes around transportation, land use, planning policy, racism, and inequality. Case studies from around the world examine issues around gentrification, housing processes, design, systems, finance and policy.
Offering crucial insights for reforming cities to be more resilient to future crises, this is an invaluable resource for scholars and policy makers alike.
Contents
Introduction ‾ Brian Doucet, Pierre Filion and Rianne Van Melik
Part 1: Housing Markets, Systems, Design and Policies
Is COVID-19 a Housing Disease? Housing, COVID-19 Risk and COVID-19 Harms in the UK ‾ Becky Tunstall
De-Gentrification or Disaster Gentrification? Debating the Impact of COVID-19 on Anglo-American Urban Gentrification ‾ Derek Hyra and Loretta Lees
'Living in a Glass Box': The Intimate City in the Time of COVID-19 ‾ Phil Hubbard
Mardin Lockdown Experience: Strategies for a More Tolerant Urban Development ‾ Zeynep Atas and Yuvacan Atmaca
Towards the Post-Pandemic (Healthy) City: Barcelona's Poblenou Superblock Challenges and Opportunities ‾ Federico Camerin and Luca Maria Francesco Fabris
Urban Crises and COVID-19 in Brazil: Poor People, Victims Again ‾ Wescley Xavier
Flexible Temporalities, Flexible Trajectories: Montreal's Nursing Home Crisis as an Example of Temporary Workers' Complicated Urban Labour Geographies ‾ Lukas Stevens
Part 2: Experiences of Housing and Home During the Pandemic
Bold Words, a Hero or a Traitor? Fang Fang's Diaries of the Wuhan Lockdown on Chinese Social Media ‾ Liangni Sally Liu, Guanyu Jason Ran and Yu Wang
The COVID-19 Lockdown and the Impact of Poor-Quality Housing on Occupants in the UK ‾ Philip Brown, Rachel Armitage, Leanne Monchuk, Dillon Newton and Brian Robson
Aging at Home: The Elderly in Gauteng, South Africa in the Context of COVID-19 ‾ Alexandra Parker and Julia De Kadt
COVID-19, Lockdown(s) and Housing Inequalities Amongst Families Who Have Children With Autism in London ‾ Rosalie Warnock
Detroit's Work To Address the Pandemic for Older Adults: A City of Challenge, History and Resilience ‾ Tam E. Perry, James McQuaid, Claudia Sanford and Dennis Archambault
Ethnic Enclaves in a Time of Plague: A Comparative Analysis of New York City and Chicago ‾ Amanda Furiasse and Sher Afgan Tareen
Migration in the Times of Immobility: Geographies of Walking and Dispossession in India ‾ Kamalika Banerjee and Samadrita Das
Living Through a Pandemic in the Shadows of Gentrification and Displacement: Experiences of Marginalized Residents in Waterloo Region, Canada ‾ William Turman, Brian Doucet and Faryal Diwan
Cities Under Lockdown: Public Health, Urban Vulnerabilities and Neighbourhood Planning in Dublin ‾ Carla Maria Kayanan, Niamh Moore-Cherry and Alma Clavin
Conclusion ‾ Brian Doucet, Pierre Filion and Rianne Van Melik
