Associate Professor Susan Parham and Dr Matthew Hardy on Face coverings, self-surveillance and social conformity in a time of Covid-19: a pilot study of public compliance with municipal rules requiring face masks to be worn in public spaces in Brittany, France.
Has COVID-19 highlighted social injustice built into our cities?
Kavya Chowdhry on how multiple studies have highlighted how the pandemic has laid bare and exacerbated social inequalities across countries.
Passivhaus development as part of a green post-COVID-19 recovery
Nicholas Arbuthnott on how Passivhaus development can influence the way we live as part of a green post-COVID-19 recovery.
How the pandemic is bringing dining to streets, sidewalks, and parking lots in the United States
Anne Marie Sowder on the expanded use of streets, pavements, and car parks to include gathering and dining should be adopted permanently where practical.
Local farms are helping city residents endure COVID-19
Andy Yates on how COVID-19 has disrupted many aspects of city living, exposing vulnerabilities to public health, the economy, and in governance.
How many minutes is your neighbourhood?
Shweta Gandhi writes on how the post-COVID era has generated the driving force to make 15-minute neighbourhoods a form of planning, a rational possibility and a plausible strategy.
The post-pandemic future for city centre office space
Richard Darby and Tom Darby write on the impact of COVID-19 on urban office environments.
What impacts are emerging from Covid-19 for urban futures?
Professor Tim Dixon on the impact of COVID-19 on cities throughout the world.
COVID-19 and the ‘old-fashioned’ idea of neighbourhoods
Dr Patrícia Canelas and Dr Idalina Baptista write on the opportunity COVID-19 provides to rethink the neighbourhood as an appropriate scale for addressing urban quality of life problems.
Living in Harmony with Nature
Ben Bolgar writes on whether we can use the current pandemic as a catalyst to address the longer-term silent killer of climate change, while engendering healthier behaviour in the short term, then we will avoid a knee-jerk reaction, and future-proof our response for the next generation.