Cities Learning from a Pandemic

Simonetta Armondi is an associate professor in Economic and Political Geography at the Department of Architecture and Urban Studies, Politecnico di Milano (Italy). Alessandro Balducci is a Full Professor at the Department of Architecture and Urban Studies, Politecnico di Milano (Italy). Martina Bovo is an architect and PhD Candidate at the Department of Architecture and Urban Studies, Politecnico di Milano (Italy). Beatrice Galimberti is a PhD Candidate in Urban Planning, Design, and Policy at the Department of Architecture and Urban Studies, Politecnico di Milano (Italy).

• 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 Frédéric 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