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COVID-19 and the City: Reframing Our Understanding of Urbicide by Learning from the Pandemic
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The magnitude and reach of the COVID-19 pandemic have brought multiple effects into our lives. Cities have been one of the most important stages of such changes in both material and symbolic dimensions. Against this backdrop, this chapter analyses the main effects of this pandemic through the lens of the concept of urbicide with a focus on Europe. Accordingly, the chapter discusses five sub-dimensions: the material reconfiguration of environmental balance and commonplace system, as well as the symbolic reconfiguration of social cohesion, consumer sovereignty and democratic institutions. The discussion points out both destructive and constructive sides of this pandemic, which ultimately demands the reframing of our understanding of the urbicide. To do so, we identify the main pandemic effects, briefly classified as revealing, accelerating and cluttering, along with the solutions in place to mitigate, adapt and/or transform local governance, in association with five main domains: environment, planning, society, economy and democracy. Based on the acknowledgement that pandemic’s effects have not been linear, our main argument builds on the need to reframe our conceptual lens to improve the interpretive potentiality of the urbicide, thus incorporating a regenerative ethos about ongoing societal and urban transformations.
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Falanga, R., Ferrão, J. (2023). COVID-19 and the City: Reframing Our Understanding of Urbicide by Learning from the Pandemic. In Carrión Meda, F., Cepeda Pico, P. (Eds.), Urbicide: The Death of the City, pp. 107-124. Cham: Springer
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Springer