Volume 1: Community and Society

Volume 1: Community and Society
Author: Brian Doucet
Publisher: Policy Press
Total Pages: 284
Release: 2021-07-22
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1529218888

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.

Volume 2: Housing and Home

Volume 2: Housing and Home
Author: Brian Doucet
Publisher: Policy Press
Total Pages: 236
Release: 2021-07-22
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1529218977

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.

Volume 3: Public Space and Mobility

Volume 3: Public Space and Mobility
Author: van Melik, Rianne
Publisher: Policy Press
Total Pages: 254
Release: 2021-07-22
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1529219000

This international volume explores the transformations of public space and public transport in response to COVID-19, both those resulting from official governmental regulations and from everyday practices of urban citizens. The contributors discuss how the virus made urban inequalities clearer, and redefined public spaces in the “new normal”.

Volume 4: Policy and Planning

Volume 4: Policy and Planning
Author: Filion, Pierre
Publisher: Policy Press
Total Pages: 266
Release: 2021-07-22
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1529219043

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.

COVID-19 Pandemic and Global Inequality

COVID-19 Pandemic and Global Inequality
Author: Rajib Bhattacharyya
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 356
Release: 2023-11-11
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9819944058

The book intends to capture the most critical issue that has cropped up as an aftermath of the Corona pandemic- the phenomenon of widening of global inequalities across nations depending upon their economic position, support policies of the government and international relationship particularly in the context of alarming growth of unemployed in the labour market, business activity and social sector. This book is expected to provide new areas of research to both academicians and policy makers to re-think about global cooperation for bridging the inequalities for a better world. It tries to incorporate the valuable contribution of experts from various fields of knowledge in a consolidated volume. This text will be revised once the chapters are finalized and put together in structured themes. The table of content lists some of the chapters that have been confirmed, but there are more that are being invited by the editors.