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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.
Our experiences of the city are dependent on our gender, race, class, age, ability, and sexual orientation. It was already clear before the pandemic that cities around the world were divided and becoming increasingly unequal. The pandemic has torn back the curtain on many of these pre-existing inequalities.
Contributions to this volume engage directly with different urban communities around the world. They give voice to those who experience poverty, discrimination and marginalisation in order to put them in the front and center of planning, policy, and political debates that make and shape cities.
Offering crucial insights for reforming cities to be more resilient to future crises, this is an invaluable resource for scholars and policy makers alike.
COVID-19 is an invisible threat that has hugely impacted cities and their inhabitants. Yet its impact is very visible, perhaps most so in urban public spaces and spaces of mobility.
This international volume explores the transformations of public space and public transport in response to COVID-19 across the world, both those resulting from official governmental regulations and from everyday practices of urban citizens. The contributors discuss how the virus made urban inequalities sharper and clearer, and redefined public spaces in the ‘new normal’.
Offering crucial insights for reforming cities to be more resilient to future crises, this is an invaluable resource for scholars and policy makers alike.
Cities play a major role in tackling the COVID-19 pandemic as many measures are adopted at the scale of cities and involve adjustments to the way urban areas operate.
Drawing from case studies across the globe, this book explores how the pandemic and the policies it has prompted have caused changes in the ways cities function. The contributors examine the advancing social inequality brought on by the pandemic and suggest policies intended to contain contagion whilst managing the economy in these circumstances.
Offering crucial insights for reforming cities to be more resilient to future crises, this is an invaluable resource for scholars and policy makers alike.
more apparent than in housing. Cuts to housing that disproportionately affected those on low incomes, women, racialized populations, and persons with disabilities were some of the major austerity measures in cities and countries around the world (Vilenica et al, 2020 ). Despite these cuts and neoliberal approaches to planning and policy before the pandemic, housing has become a central pillar of governmental and public health approaches to fighting the virus. Housing is key to understanding how the virus spreads. ‘Staying at home’ has been one of the main public
inequities … The impacts have been worse for some groups such as seniors, workers who provide essential services, such as those in health care or agriculture, racialized populations, people living with disabilities, and women. The virus didn’t create new inequities in our society; it exposed them and underscored the impact of our social policies on our health status’. 1 While this may have been a revelation for some people, for the contributors to this volume, and the others in this series, such a direct and unequivocal statement was not surprising. Such insights are
Introduction Older adults have been thrown into the spotlight of the COVID-19 pandemic and the bright lights have exposed both societies’ admirable and deplorable traits. We have seen stories of heart-warming compassion and deep-rooted ageism. From the appalling #boomerremover hashtag to the calls for mandatory quarantines for those over 70 years of age, public responses to COVID-19 demonstrate the role of age and (dis)ability in amplifying social and spatial inequalities. Although these reactions are unfounded, unethical, and have not received widespread
pandemic, as it has now rolled over most settled regions around the world, places in the global urban world and the spaces between them have generated complex, and often contradictory, outbreak and reopening narratives. Urbanists have weighed residential density, degrees of informality, transportation modes, housing form, availability of park space, and a host of other factors in determining patterns in the proliferation of COVID-19. Social scientists have pointed to race, class, age, disability, and gender as important determinants. Students of public policy and
-Awatere, Chrissie Cowan) and non-Māori authors (Rebekah Graham, Amanda Stevens, Rose Wilkinson) in critically examining the experiences of BLV persons during the COVID-19 lockdown. In considering these experiences we also acknowledge the value of working together as academics (Graham, Masters-Awatere) and disability advocates (Cowan, Stevens, Wilkinson). Aotearoa New Zealand is also a signatory to the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) and to the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP). Despite a stated
financial and practical support for adult and young carers, who continue to bear the brunt of inadequate social care in the UK. Disability, housing needs, and housing inequalities Housing inequalities matter for children with autism and their families. Autism affects people across the socio-economic spectrum and from all ethnicities and nationalities, but some children and their families are more likely to be living in unsuitable housing than others. Housing data on families with disabled children are scant (Provan et al, 2016 ), however, figures suggest that
