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Post-Pandemic Cities: An Urban Lexicon of Accelerations/Decelerations

Guma, Prince; Hodson, Michael; Lockhart, Andrew; Marvin, Simon; McFarlane, Colin; McGuirk, Pauline; McMeekin, Andrew; Ortiz, Catalina; Simone, AbdouMaliq; Wiig, Alan

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Authors

Prince Guma

Michael Hodson

Andrew Lockhart

Simon Marvin

Pauline McGuirk

Andrew McMeekin

Catalina Ortiz

AbdouMaliq Simone

Alan Wiig



Abstract

COVID-19 has stimulated renewed societal and academic debate about the future of cities and urban life. Future visons have veered from the ‘death of the city’ to visual renderings and limited experiments with 15-minute neighbourhoods. Within this context, we as a diverse group of urban scholars sought to examine the emergent ‘post’-COVID city through the production of an urban lexicon that investigates its socio-material contours. The urban lexicon makes three contributions. First, to explore how the pandemic has accelerated certain processes and agendas while at the same time, other processes, priorities and sites have been decelerated and put on hold. Second, to utilise this framing to examine the impacts of the pandemic on how cities are governed, on how urban geographies are managed and lived, and with how care emerged as a vital urban resource. Third, to tease out what might be temporary intensifications and what may become configurational in a variety of urban domains, including governance, platforming, density, crowds, technosolutionism, dwelling, respatialisation, reconcentration, care, improvisation, and atmosphere. The urban lexicon proposes a vocabulary for delineating, describing, and understanding some of the key aspects of the emergent post-pandemic city.

Citation

Guma, P., Hodson, M., Lockhart, A., Marvin, S., McFarlane, C., McGuirk, P., …Wiig, A. (2023). Post-Pandemic Cities: An Urban Lexicon of Accelerations/Decelerations. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, 48(3), 452-473. https://doi.org/10.1111/tran.12607

Journal Article Type Article
Acceptance Date Feb 26, 2023
Online Publication Date Mar 30, 2023
Publication Date 2023-09
Deposit Date Mar 9, 2023
Publicly Available Date Mar 29, 2024
Journal Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers
Print ISSN 0020-2754
Electronic ISSN 1475-5661
Publisher Wiley
Peer Reviewed Peer Reviewed
Volume 48
Issue 3
Pages 452-473
DOI https://doi.org/10.1111/tran.12607
Public URL https://durham-repository.worktribe.com/output/1180107

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© 2023 The Authors. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd on behalf of Royal Geographical Society (with The Institute of British Geographers).

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