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6. Moving Around the COVID City

Authors : Scott Baum, Emma Baker, Amanda Davies, John Stone, Elizabeth Taylor

Published in: Pandemic Cities

Publisher: Springer Nature Singapore

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Just like the changes to many other features of city life, the arrival of COVID-19 into Australia heralded a change in the ways in which people moved around cities. Driven by a range of factors including public health restrictions that were introduced to ‘stop the spread’ of the virus and long periods of lockdown which anchored people in their homes and local communities, how we travelled for work, shopping and play shifted.

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Title: Moving Around the COVID City
Authors: Scott Baum
Emma Baker
Amanda Davies
John Stone
Elizabeth Taylor
Publisher: Springer Nature Singapore
Book: Pandemic Cities
Print ISBN: 978-981-19-5883-0

Electronic ISBN: 978-981-19-5884-7

Copyright Year: 2022
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-5884-7_6

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