Future of Urbanism in the Post-Pandemic World
A special issue of Urban Science (ISSN 2413-8851).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 April 2024) | Viewed by 864
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
I am writing to invite proposals for a Special Issue of Urban Science, a peer-reviewed open access journal, in order to explore the future of urbanism in the post-pandemic world. A description of the themed issue is included below.
Contemporary circumstances of urban development have been upended by the COVID-19 pandemic in important ways. The pandemic has accelerated trends that have been underway for some time and intensified the problems that cities are currently facing and are likely to face in the future. It has changed the conventional roles of places where we live, work, study, and play. It also has revived previous debates on sprawl, urbanism, climate change, public realm, urban mobility, and smart cities (Clark, 2020; Garde, 2020; Grant, 2020; Hamidi et al., 2020). The pandemic, for instance, has accelerated e-commerce and the consequent closure of shopping malls and has emphasized the need to consider adaptive reuse of commercial areas. It has pointed to the value of public places as social settings that contribute significantly to the quality of life of urban areas. The need to work remotely during the pandemic also has altered conventional roles and desired settings of home and office. In addition, the pandemic has reignited the debate on the role of public transit and the adequacy of transit-oriented developments in addressing the needs of transit-dependent households. In this context, what is the future of urbanism in the post-COVID-19 world?Proposals are invited for a themed issue of Urban Science, a peer-reviewed open access journal, in order to explore the future of urbanism in the post-pandemic world. The manuscripts, for instance, could address the following types of questions: How might the COVID-19 pandemic impact the planning and design of cities? What is the future of urbanism in the post-COVID-19 world? What are the problems that cities are likely to face in the future and what are the major themes that researchers need to focus on to address these problems? How might the COVID-19 pandemic reshape important debates in the fields of urban planning and design?
References
Clark, J. (2020). Uneven Innovation: The Work of Smart Cities. New York: Columbia University Press.
Garde, A. (2019). The future of urbanism. In E. Talen (Ed.), A research agenda for New Urbanism (pp. 153–165). Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar.
Jill L. Grant (2020) Pandemic Challenges to Planning Prescriptions: How Covid-19 is Changing the Ways We Think about Planning. Planning Theory & Practice, 21(5), 659-667.
Hamidi, S., Sabouri, S., & Ewing, R. (2020). Does density aggravate the COVID-19 pandemic? Journal of the American Planning Association, 86(1), 495–509.
Dr. Ajay Garde
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- urbanism
- COVID-19
- urban planning and design
- post-pandemic world
- smart cities
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