Importance of public space, neighbors’ support, and safety in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic lockdown

IF 3.9 2区 社会学 Q1 URBAN STUDIES
Pablo Cabrera-Barona , Gabriel Gaona , Andrea Carrión
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Abstract

The restrictions triggered by the COVID-19 pandemic, especially during the first weeks of confinement in 2020, entailed marked changes concerning urban socio-spatial relations. This article analyzes perceptions of the importance of public space, neighbors' support, neighborhood safety, and home safety before and during the initial months of the COVID-19 lockdown. We conducted an online survey between March and April 2020 in Quito, Ecuador, and applied quantitative and spatial methods to analyze the perceptions. The results show statistically significant differences in neighbors’ support, home safety, and neighborhood safety between normal days and lockdown days. The perceptions of the public space as non-important before the lockdown and the perceptions of not being safe at home or in the neighborhood are spatially random, not concentrated in a specific area of the city. Our findings also show that gender, the importance of public space during normal days, and the willingness of neighbors to support each other on lockdown days could explain the perception of the importance of public space on lockdown days. This research provides unique information to contribute with perspectives and discussions of public space and social dynamics in pandemic and post pandemic times.

新冠肺炎疫情封锁背景下公共空间、邻居支持和安全的重要性
2019冠状病毒病大流行引发的限制,特别是在2020年禁闭的头几周,导致城市社会空间关系发生了显著变化。本文分析了在COVID-19封锁之前和最初几个月期间,人们对公共空间、邻居支持、社区安全和家庭安全的重要性的看法。我们于2020年3月至4月在厄瓜多尔基多进行了一项在线调查,并应用定量和空间方法分析了人们的看法。结果显示,正常日和封锁日在邻居支持、家庭安全和邻里安全方面存在统计学上的显著差异。在封锁之前,人们对公共空间不重要的看法,以及在家里或附近不安全的看法,在空间上是随机的,而不是集中在城市的某个特定区域。我们的研究结果还表明,性别、正常情况下公共空间的重要性以及邻居在封锁日相互支持的意愿可以解释人们对封锁日公共空间重要性的看法。这项研究提供了独特的信息,有助于对大流行时期和大流行后时期的公共空间和社会动态进行观点和讨论。
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CiteScore
9.50
自引率
4.90%
发文量
45
审稿时长
65 days
期刊介绍: Journal of Urban Management (JUM) is the Official Journal of Zhejiang University and the Chinese Association of Urban Management, an international, peer-reviewed open access journal covering planning, administering, regulating, and governing urban complexity. JUM has its two-fold aims set to integrate the studies across fields in urban planning and management, as well as to provide a more holistic perspective on problem solving. 1) Explore innovative management skills for taming thorny problems that arise with global urbanization 2) Provide a platform to deal with urban affairs whose solutions must be looked at from an interdisciplinary perspective.
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