Emerging infectious disease outbreaks have transformed the very nature of urban life worldwide, even as the extent and experience of pandemics are shaped by the planetary urban condition. Pandemic Urbanism critically investigates these relationships in a world faced with its first pandemic on a majority urban planet.
The authors reveal the social and historical context of recent infectious disease events and how they have variously transformed the urban fabric. They highlight the important role played by socio-ecological processes associated with the global urban periphery – suburban or post-suburban zones and hinterland areas of “extended” urbanization – changing mobility patterns, and new forms of urban governance and pandemic response. The book develops novel insights for post-pandemic urban governance and planning grounded in the quest for social and spatial justice. In doing so, it reveals a paradox at the heart of pandemic urbanism: urban life enables contagion to spread easily, yet at the same time offers unique possibilities to contain and respond to disease outbreaks.
Multidisciplinary in approach and written by experts in the field, this book is an invaluable primer on the origins, pathways, and management of infectious disease.
Author(s): S. Harris Ali, Creighton Connolly, Roger Keil
Series: Urban Futures
Publisher: Polity
Year: 2023
Language: English
Pages: 273
City: Bristol
Cover
Title page
Copyright
Contents
Acknowledgements
1 Introduction: Emerging Infectious Disease and the “Urban” Condition
INFECTIOUS DISEASES AND THE URBAN CONDITION
POLITICAL ECOLOGIES OF DISEASE IN AN ERA OF PLANETARY URBANIZATION
OUTLINE OF THE BOOK
2 Landscape Political Ecologies of Disease: Tracing Patterns of Extended Urbanization
CHANGING URBAN GEOGRAPHIES OF HEALTH AND DISEASE
LANDSCAPE POLITICAL ECOLOGIES OF INFECTIOUS DISEASE
URBANIZATION, SOCIAL MOBILITIES, DENSITY, AND INFECTIOUS DISEASE
PANDEMIC URBANISM IN THE EXTENDED CITY: POLITICAL ECOLOGIES OF INFECTIOUS DISEASE
EXTENDED URBANIZATION AND EMERGING INFECTIOUS DISEASE
CONCLUSION
3 SARS and the Global City
THE MICROBIAL TRAFFIC OF SARS CORONAVIRUs (SARS-CoV)
THE SOCIAL AND CULTURAL CONTEXT OF THE DISEASE ECOLOGY OF THE SARS CORONAVIRUS (SARS-CoV)
SARS AND THE GLOBAL CITY
SARS IN THE SUBURBS: THE SOCIO-DEMOGRAPHICS OF THE GLOBAL CITY
THE IMMIGRANT SUBURB IN THE GLOBAL CITY
SARS AND INFRASTRUCTURE
SARS AND GOVERNANCE
CONCLUSION
4 Ebola and African Urbanization
BACKGROUND
MICROBIAL TRAFFIC AND EBOLA VIRUS DISEASE (EVD)
COLONIALISM AND THE DISEASE ECOLOGY OF EBOLA
INFECTIOUS DISEASE, SLUM SETTLEMENTS, AND THE POSTCOLONIAL CITY
EBOLA VIRUS DISEASE AND INFORMAL SETTLEMENTS: THE CASE OF WEST POINT, MONROVIA
THE COMMUNITY-BASED RESPONSE TO EBOLA VIRUS DISEASE
CONCLUSION
5 COVID-19 and Extended Urbanization
BACKGROUND: THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC
A PANDEMIC TAKES ITS COURSE
COVID-19 AND URBAN INEQUALITY
Peripheries and margins
COVID-19 and race/ethnicity in the city
COVID-19 AND SOCIO-SPATIAL EFFECTS
COVID IN THE OUTER SUBURBS
CONCLUSION
6 Health Governance on a Planet of Cities
URBAN POLITICAL PATHOLOGY
TOWARDS URBAN HEALTH GOVERNANCE
THE LOCAL GOVERNANCE OF HEALTH EMERGENCIES IN THE EXTENDED CITY
A PANDEMIC FOR EVERY (URBAN) WORLD
GOVERNANCE IN AN URBAN WORLD
THE GOVERNANCE OF THE URBAN PERIPHERY DURING THE PANDEMIC
CONCLUSION
7 Urban Planning and Infectious Disease Revisited
URBAN PLANNING: THEORY AND PRACTICE
PANDEMIC PLANNING: URBAN SPACE AND INFECTIOUS DISEASE
COVID-19 AND PLANNING THEORY: TOWARDS POST-PANDEMIC PLANNING
DENSITY, OVERCROWDING, AND PERIPHERAL URBAN LIFE
PANDEMIC PLANNING IN THE WAKE OF COVID-19: REWILDING AND REIMAGINING URBAN SPACE
CONCLUSION
8 The City after the Plague
THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC: THREE YEARS ON
VACCINATED DREAMS, OSCILLATING REALITIES
WHAT WE NEED TO KNOW. WHAT WE CAN DO. WHAT WE MUST DO.
FROM PANDEMIC TO THE ENDEMIC URBANISM?
THE SMART CITY AFTER PANDEMIC URBANISM
THE CITY AFTER THE PANDEMIC
Notes
1 Introduction
3 SARS and the Global City
4 Ebola and African Urbanization
5 COVID-19 and Extended Urbanization
7 Urban Planning and Infectious Disease Revisited
8 The City after the Plague
References
Index
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