Problematising density

Covid-19, the crowd, and urban life

Dados Bibliográficos

ID3978398
AutoresAbigail Joiner (Durham University), Colin Mcfarlane (0000-0001-9209-4494, Durham University, autor correspondente), Ludovico Rella (0000-0001-5468-9526, Durham University), Michelle Uriarte-Ruiz (0000-0002-7753-5367, Durham University)
Ano2024
Volume25
Fascículo2
Páginas181-198
Data de publicação2024-02-07
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoSocial & Cultural Geography (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 1464-9365 • E-ISSN: 1470-1197
EditoraInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/14649365.2022.2143879
OpenAlexW4309074695
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas20
Referências citadas25

The COVID-19 pandemic dramatically transformed the fundamentals of city management and everyday life. Density has been at the centre of this transformation. But how were densities managed during the pandemic? What are the political implications? And how did people come to perceive and experience densities? Drawing on research in five British cities – Birmingham, Edinburgh, Liverpool, Manchester, and Newcastle – we argue that the pandemic produced a set of new problematisations of density. Those problematisations brought multiple concerns into connection with density: control and rights, the politics of crowds and protest, differential susceptibility to infection, changing orientations to the urban future, and patterns of social anxiety, trust and blame. We seek to advance research in Geography and Urban Studies on how urban densities are governed and experienced, on the urban dimensions of COVID-19, and on how an attention to density generates insight into the social and political life of cities

Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19 · Crowds · Economic growth · Everyday life · Gentrification · Pandemic · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Urban politics · Urban theory · COVID-19 epidemiological studies · Law · Urban Planning and Governance · Urban, Neighborhood, and Segregation Studies