This book features a collection of novel and original contributions to the study of urban sustainability from a human health perspective in the light of the current corona pandemic and the challenge of cities to offer inclusive, appealing, and healthy infrastructures. Written by experts from various disciplines, this book analyzes the impact of the corona pandemic on contemporary cities, and how these cities respond to the challenges. Featuring also case studies on various cities and regions, it addresses four interconnected research challenges and themes:
- Cities, cooperation, and resilience in the face of COVID-19
- Comparative approaches on patterns and effects of city and location-specific policies and socioeconomic structures during COVID-19
- The socioeconomic and labor market effects of pandemics on cities and local economies
- The need for new types of data and applications in addressing challenges in analysing the effects of COVID-19on cities
This book will appeal to scholars of regional and spatial science, urban economics, and urban planning and anyone interested in the impact of corona pandemic on city life.
表中的内容
Chapter 1. Introduction.- Part I. Cities, cooperation, and resilience in the face of COVID-19.- Chapter 2. The resilience of cities to COVID-19: A literature review and application to Dutch cities (Jeroen van Haaren).- Chapter 3. A subjective geographer’s experience of pandemic and confidence in systems of cities (Denise Pumain).- Chapter 4. City and Regional Demand for Vaccines Whose Supply Arises from Competition in a Bertrand Duopoly (Amitrajeet A. Batabyal).- Chapter 5. Post Pandemic Cities – competing for size or cooperating for interaction: An analysis of the evolution of Portuguese Municipalities based on an Organic and Rational Spatial Interaction Growth Models (Tomaz Ponce Dentinho).- Part II. Comparative approaches on the patterns and effects of city and location-specific policies and socioeconomic structures during COVID-19.- Chapter 6. The social digital twin for liveable cities: a COVID-19 case study (Corentin Kuster).- Chapter 7. The impact of differing COVID-19 mitigation policies: three natural experiments using difference-in-difference modelling (Kingsley Haynes).- Chapter 8. On the association between income inequality and COVID spread: a view into Spanish Functional Urban Areas (David Castells-Quintana).- Chapter 9. Urbanization impact arising from the behavioral shift of citizens and consumers in a post-pandemic world (Tannistha Maiti).- Part III. The Socioeconomic and labor market effects of pandemics on cities and local economies.- Chapter 10. What happened after SARS in 2003? The economic impacts of a pandemic (Ilan Noy).- Chapter 11. Industrial composition, remote Working, and mobility changes in Canada and the US during the COVID-19 pandemic: A SHAP value analysis of XGBoost predictions (Mehmet Güney Celbiş).- Part IV. The need for new types of data and applications, and existing challenges in analysing the effects of COVID-19 on Cities.- Chapter 12. Problems with recording the spread of COVID-19 in developing countries: evidence from a phone survey in Indonesia (Budy P. Resosudarmo).- Chapter 13. Pandemic Regional Recovery Index: An Adaptable Tool for Decision-making on Regions (Jacob Irving).- Chapter 14. The geography of daily urban spatial mobility during Covid: The example of Stockholm in 2020 and 2021 (Ian Shuttleworth).- Chapter 15. Social justice, digitalization, and health and wellbeing in the pandemic city (Laurie A. Schintler)
关于作者
Mehmet Güney Celbiş (Ph.D. UNU-MERIT, 2015) is an affiliated researcher at UNU-MERIT, and an assistant professor at Yeditepe University, Istanbul, Turkey. His research interests include machine learning for socioeconomic analysis and urban and rural economies and spatial economics.
Karima Kourtit is a researcher at the Open University, Heerlen, the Netherlands. She was laboratory owner at the Jheronimus Academy of Data Science (JADS) in the division Smart Cities and Data Analytics (owned by the Eindhoven University of Technology and Tilburg University), ‘s-Hertogenbosch, the Netherlands. She has worked in the Department of Urban Planning and Environment at the Center for the Future of Places (CFP), at the School of Architecture and Built Environment at KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, and at Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan, Poland. She holds two Ph Ds, in both economics and geography (with distinction), and has a particular interest in regional and urban topics. Her research focuses on the emerging ‘New Urban World.’ She has also been involved in the implementation of several national and international research projects and initiatives. She is also managing director of the Regional Science Academy.
Peter Nijkamp is an emeritus professor of regional and urban economics and of economic geography at the VU University and is also associated with the Open University of the Netherlands (OU), Heerlen (the Netherlands); Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iasi, Iasi (Romania); KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm (Sweden), the University of Technology, Benguérir (Morocco), and A. Mickiewicz University, Poznan (Poland). He serves on the editorial/advisory boards of more than 30 journals. According to the Re Pec list, he is one of the top 30 best-known economists in the world. He is also a fellow and former vice president of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Sciences. He has served as president of the governing board of the Netherlands Research Council (NWO). In 1996, he was awarded the most prestigious scientific prize in the Netherlands, the Spinoza award. He is co-editor of the Springer Handbook of Regional Science.