Cities Learning from a Pandemic : Towards Preparedness (Paperback)

1. Introduction Part 1. Interpretations: a theoretical framework and emerging territorial issues?2. The key of preparedness 3. Supporting urban planning to stay with uncertainty: Preparedness, care, and antifragility. 4. Preparedness as a technology of the imagination. Interview with Andrew Lakoff and Frederic Keck?5. Spatial strategies for getting ready? The weak linkage amid preparedness and urban policy Part 2. Observations: experiences of (un)preparedness in Europe?6. What future for European cities after COVID-19? An international survey?7. Analysis of Madrid’s urban policies in the period 2020-2021. Towards a more resilient post-coronavirus capital? 8. The impacts of the sanitary crisis on the French urban areas and their likely effects on urban policies 9. COVID-19 in the Lombardy region: socio-spatial peripheries and forgotten densities of long-term care?10. Urban and manufacturing after the pandemic, preparing a new ground for the productive city 11. Distributing, desynchronising, digitalising:??towards a new mobile urbanity?in the COVID-19 era?12. Changing uses in public spaces: dehors’ supporting measures in Italy in COVID-19 times?13. Housing as a basic infrastructure against risks: the case of COVID-19 housing support measures in Greece?14. Governing pandemics at the local level: the case of COVID-19 in Albania?15. Schools and cities: spaces for solutions?16. Access to essential services. Migrants’ landing during lockdown?17. Urban peripheries after COVID-19 in Italy?18. Afterword: Preparedness supporting the transition