Rethinking neighbourhoods

Abstract

The potential long-run effects of the pandemic on urban life have already brought forward a range of debates and occasionally contradictory predictions--but what is clear is that the current situation affords us an opportunity to reflect on how we think about neighborhoods as urban planning professionals and academics Neighborhoods are central to urban life, and in an ever-urbanizing world are only likely to become more important If anything has changed, it is that we are now acutely aware of our local surroundings--brick and mortar, stranger and friend--the streets we encounter in the daily escapes from the four walls of our homes Here, Wargent and Talen identify a number of issues concerning the nature of neighborhoods that may generate more interest once restrictions on movement are relaxed