{"title":"America Under COVID-19: The Plight of the Old","authors":"S. Low, A. Loukaitou-Sideris","doi":"10.1332/policypress/9781529219005.003.0010","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1332/policypress/9781529219005.003.0010","url":null,"abstract":"How can we alleviate the plight of older people during COVID-19? This chapter takes stock and assesses the effectiveness of the efforts against the pandemic in the US, particularly for people over 60. It argues that this age category is often an afterthought for policy makers. The consequences of oversight, the fear of death, increased stigma and discrimination and the consequences of physical distancing and social isolation are adding to the anxiety and loneliness of the elderly. The chapter introduces four principles of the allocation of public space that privilege the old and most vulnerable citizens in parks and on public transit.","PeriodicalId":143200,"journal":{"name":"Volume 3: Public Space and Mobility","volume":"15 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-07-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124739474","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Exploring Older Adults’ Experiences of Urban Space in the COVID-19 Lockdowns:","authors":"Tess Osborne, Arlinde Dul, L. Meijering","doi":"10.2307/j.ctv1t4m1m6.17","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv1t4m1m6.17","url":null,"abstract":"Around the world, the COVID-19 pandemic has led to the implementation of social distancing protocols to hinder the spread of the virus. Older adults, who are acknowledged to be vulnerable to the virus, were encouraged to self-isolate. This chapter explores the similarities and differences in the lockdown experiences of older adults in urban environments in the UK and the Netherlands by drawing on telephone interviews with 38 older adults. The interviewed elderly, in response to perceived risks of crowds, often chose to be in, and interact with, spaces at a short distance from their homes. Though this reduced mobility and hyperlocal everyday life might seem restricting at first, it could also facilitate ‘aging-in-place’ in the long term, as the elderly become more familiar with their immediate surroundings.","PeriodicalId":143200,"journal":{"name":"Volume 3: Public Space and Mobility","volume":"33 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-07-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114186124","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Mobility Justice and Social Inequality During the COVID-19 Pandemic in Jakarta","authors":"H. S. Dillon, D. Rukmana","doi":"10.2307/J.CTV1T4M1M6.23","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/J.CTV1T4M1M6.23","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":143200,"journal":{"name":"Volume 3: Public Space and Mobility","volume":"46 8 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-07-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123479112","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Lessons from the Lockdown: Foregrounding Non-privileged Perspectives into the (Post-)COVID City Debate","authors":"L. Beeckmans, S. Oosterlynck","doi":"10.1332/policypress/9781529219005.003.0004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1332/policypress/9781529219005.003.0004","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter draws spatial lessons from the lockdown experience for the post-COVID-19-city. It argues that it is predominantly a ‘white’ middleclass perspective that is prevailing, while the pandemic affected the urban population in very different ways, hitting vulnerable groups most heavily. How can the spatial needs of these vulnerable groups be taken into consideration? Although some changes like car-free streets and more walkable cities undoubtedly will result in more healthy and liveable cities, they also reconfirm a gentrification agenda that in all likelihood will not improve live for all urban dwellers equally.","PeriodicalId":143200,"journal":{"name":"Volume 3: Public Space and Mobility","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-07-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130840967","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Pandemic-and Future-Proofing Cities: Pedestrian-oriented Development as an Alternative Model to Transit-based Intensification Centers","authors":"Neluka Leanage, P. Filion","doi":"10.1332/policypress/9781529219005.003.0018","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1332/policypress/9781529219005.003.0018","url":null,"abstract":"Many official smart growth inspired Canadian plans limit sprawl by mixing land uses, transportation modes, jobs and residents to create compact, transit-oriented, multi-functional, intensification centres enriched with amenities and highly designed public spaces. However, these intensification strategies, built on new or expanded public transit systems at metropolitan, regional and local planning scales, face challenges amid the 2020 pandemic. Recovery from the combined COVID-19-induced loss of commercial activity in intensification centres and confidence in public transit could take years, and combined with an increased reliance on private vehicles, could undo decades of planning efforts at shifting unsustainable land use-transportation dynamics. This chapter proposes as an alternative, or complementary, intensification approach, a pedestrian-oriented development (POD) model inspired by the ‘15-minute city’ being considered across the world.","PeriodicalId":143200,"journal":{"name":"Volume 3: Public Space and Mobility","volume":"50 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-07-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133056688","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"‘Everybody Has to Move, You Can’t Stand Still’: Policing of Vulnerable Urban Populations During the COVID-19 Pandemic in Brussels","authors":"Mattias De Backer, L. Melgaço","doi":"10.1332/policypress/9781529219005.003.0005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1332/policypress/9781529219005.003.0005","url":null,"abstract":"It is clear that the pandemic has had much harsher effects on vulnerable urban groups such as migrant youth, refugees, asylum-seekers, undocumented migrants and the homeless. For many of these groups public space is a quintessential realm, not only for leisure and social contact but also for shelter and income. This chapter presents early findings from ongoing research on the fate of these groups based on 30 interviews with frontline practitioners such as social assistants, social workers, language course teachers, outreach workers and youth workers. The interviews reveal how increased policing to enforce COVID-19 measures has perhaps made public spaces safer in terms of health regulation, but has simultaneously made them more desolate, dangerous places for these vulnerable populations.","PeriodicalId":143200,"journal":{"name":"Volume 3: Public Space and Mobility","volume":"12 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-07-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133656433","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Acknowledgments","authors":"","doi":"10.2307/j.ctv1t4m1m6.5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv1t4m1m6.5","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":143200,"journal":{"name":"Volume 3: Public Space and Mobility","volume":"11 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-07-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128197591","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Back Matter","authors":"","doi":"10.2307/j.ctv1t4m1m6.28","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv1t4m1m6.28","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":143200,"journal":{"name":"Volume 3: Public Space and Mobility","volume":"71 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-07-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130251324","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"City Cycling after COVID-19 for Interspecies Mobility Justice","authors":"N. Scott","doi":"10.2307/J.CTV1T4M1M6.22","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/J.CTV1T4M1M6.22","url":null,"abstract":"Drawing on cinematic GoPro 8 footage collected in Vancouver from April to June of 2020, this chapter describes the metaphor of a ‘double-edged sword’ of people’s changed mobility behaviour as a result of the pandemic; there is simultaneously a resurgence of ‘slow’ mobility like walking and cycling in public space, but also an expansion of private car use. While the latter is certainly concerning, the COVID-19 crisis proved that transport behaviour is not as difficult to change as people had assumed. Using the framework of mobility justice, the chapter suggests how expanding cycling in the post-COVID city might proceed in a more socially and ecologically equitable manner, by targeting the inner suburbs.","PeriodicalId":143200,"journal":{"name":"Volume 3: Public Space and Mobility","volume":"28 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-07-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116611398","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Public Libraries in Crises: Between Spaces of Care and Information Infrastructures","authors":"A. Corble, Rianne van Melik","doi":"10.1332/policypress/9781529219005.003.0012","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1332/policypress/9781529219005.003.0012","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter investigates shifting public library meanings and practices in the Netherlands and the United Kingdom during and after the crisis. In both countries, public libraries were already in some state of crisis prior to COVID-19 due to a decade of austerity measures. On top of that, the COVID-19 pandemic severely hampered the library’s function as social infrastructure, as libraries were being closed down for a while and reopened under strict regulations. This crisis-upon-crisis perpetuates social injustice for the most vulnerable of library users and workers, whose lives and livelihoods depend on social investment in libraries as spaces of care. This raises the question of who the public library is for, when services are stripped back to the bare functional minimum of information provision, and their vital social spaces and infrastructures are barred from urban life.","PeriodicalId":143200,"journal":{"name":"Volume 3: Public Space and Mobility","volume":"52 4 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-07-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130298537","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}