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2022 | Buch

Pandemic Cities

The COVID-19 Crisis and Australian Urban Regions

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

Verlag: Springer Nature Singapore

Buchreihe : Cities Research Series

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This book highlights the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on cities. The COVID-19 pandemic and the associated economic and social impacts have been felt around the world. In large cities and other urban areas, the pandemic has highlighted a number of issues from pressures on urban labour and housing markets, shifts in demographic processes including migration and mobility, changes in urban travel patterns and pressures on contemporary planning and governance processes.

Despite Australia’s relatively mild COVID exposure, Australian cities and large urban areas have not been immune to these issues. The economic shutdown of the country in the early stages of the pandemic, the sporadic border closures between states, the effective closure of international borders and the imposition of widespread public health orders that have required significant behavioural change across the population have all changed our cities in some and the way we live and work in them in some way. Some of the challenges have reflected long-standing problems including intrenched inequality in labour markets and housing markets, others such as the impact on commuting patterns and patterns of migration have emerged largely during the pandemic. ​

This book, co-authored by experts in their field, outlines some of the major issues facing Australian cities and urban areas as a result of the pandemic and sets a course for future of the cities we live in.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Frontmatter
Chapter 1. COVID-19 and Australian Cities: When the Pandemic Came to Town
Abstract
As we sit to write these opening lines, it is incredible to think back over the last two years and realise that you never really know what is coming around the corner. January 2020 and Australia had just come off one of the most prolonged droughts in history and was coming to the tail-end of catastrophic bushfires that impacted urban and country people alike. On the political front, our then Prime Minister had gone AWOL to Hawaii for a family holiday.
Scott Baum, Emma Baker, Amanda Davies, John Stone, Elizabeth Taylor
Chapter 2. Population Challenges and Change in Pandemic Cities
Abstract
Our opening discussion clearly shows that COVID-19 has had wide-ranging impacts across Australian cities’ social and economic landscape.
Scott Baum, Emma Baker, Amanda Davies, John Stone, Elizabeth Taylor
Chapter 3. COVID-19 and the Social Structure of Cities: The Forgotten Vulnerable
Abstract
This quote from the academic journal Public Health helps us frame the COVID-19 health pandemic within its broader social context. Like all health issues, the pandemic is an emergency that has deeply entrenched social connections and implications. The main point is that the health outcomes associated with the pandemic are not evenly shared between different individuals or communities. All through the pandemic, but especially in the early phases, it has been those with lower incomes, older people, people with poor English skills and those with existing health issues that have been at the mercy of the disease.
Scott Baum, Emma Baker, Amanda Davies, John Stone, Elizabeth Taylor
Chapter 4. The Great Job Reshuffle: How COVID-19 Changed Urban Labour Markets
Abstract
As we have already seen, the COVID-19 pandemic has impacted almost every part of life and has left very few people or communities untouched.
Scott Baum, Emma Baker, Amanda Davies, John Stone, Elizabeth Taylor
Chapter 5. Housing and the Pandemic
Abstract
Cities and housing go hand-in-hand. Housing consumes a significant amount of space within cities and adds significantly to the urban feel and character. Adequate housing remains closely connected with economic development. It generates employment, promotes industries and creates opportunities for financial gain.
Scott Baum, Emma Baker, Amanda Davies, John Stone, Elizabeth Taylor
Chapter 6. Moving Around the COVID City
Abstract
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.
Scott Baum, Emma Baker, Amanda Davies, John Stone, Elizabeth Taylor
Chapter 7. Planning the COVID City
Abstract
As the previous chapters attest, the COVID-19 pandemic has impacted Australian cities in a multitude of ways and these impacts have had an array of different outcomes. As we have lived through the pandemic, we have witnessed rapid shifts in employment locations and in the patterns and scale of internal and international migration. We have seen the public health emergency reflected in and reinforcing a range of existing inequalities across communities and changing demands for the way space is used within cities. For urban planners, whose jobs demand they anticipate trends and help shape the future of cities, the rapid changes brought about by the health and economic responses to the pandemic raised significant challenges.
Scott Baum, Emma Baker, Amanda Davies, John Stone, Elizabeth Taylor
Chapter 8. The Future of COVID Cities
Abstract
As we write this final chapter, the COVID-19 pandemic that has spread across the globe for the past two years is still having its impacts felt. Australia has come through the Omicron variant of the disease better than other countries, but not entirely unscathed. Our ‘poster-child’ status as being a country that successfully dealt with the initial outbreak of the disease was beginning to look a little tarnished.
Scott Baum, Emma Baker, Amanda Davies, John Stone, Elizabeth Taylor
Metadaten
Titel
Pandemic Cities
verfasst von
Scott Baum
Emma Baker
Amanda Davies
John Stone
Elizabeth Taylor
Copyright-Jahr
2022
Verlag
Springer Nature Singapore
Electronic ISBN
978-981-19-5884-7
Print ISBN
978-981-19-5883-0
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-5884-7