Edited by John R. Bryson, Professor of Enterprise and Economic Geography, Department of Strategy and International Business, Birmingham Business School, University of Birmingham, UK, Lauren Andres, Professor of Planning and Urban Transformations, The Bartlett School of Planning, University College London, UK, Aksel Ersoy, Assistant Professor in Urban Development Management, Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands and Louise Reardon, Associate Professor in Governance and Public Policy, Department of Public Administration and Policy, University of Birmingham, UK

• Contents:Preface: what’s next? COVID-19 as a planetary inflection pointfor places, people, policy and research xxiPART I INTRODUCTION1 A year into the pandemic: shifts, improvisations andimpacts for people, place and policy 2John R. Bryson, Lauren Andres, Aksel Ersoy and Louise ReardonPART II PANDEMICS, PEOPLE, ORGANIZATIONSAND SOCIETY2 Human-centered solutions to the digital divide: lessonsfrom a global pandemic 36Kira Allmann3 Living with pandemics in higher education: people, placeand policy 47Matthew Thomas, Tendayi Gonondo, Peter Rautenbach,Kiran Seeley, Ardita Shkurti, Angus Thomas and Holly Westlake4 Building post-COVID community resilience by movingbeyond emergency food support 59Megan K. Blake5 The job–food–health nexus in South African townshipsand the impact of COVID-19 69Stuart Paul Denoon-Stevens and Katrina du Toit6 Repercussions and impact of COVID-19 pandemicencampment mechanisms on Lebanese informal tentedsettlements along the Lebanese–Syrian borderline 79Paul Moawad and Lauren Andres7 COVID-19 and the emergence of a level 2.5 society inSouth Korea 91Jin-Tae Hwang8 COVID-19, digital transformations and essential services 103Maria SavonaPART III PANDEMICS, PLACE AND ENVIRONMENT9 COVID-19 and the climate emergency: lessons in the timeof crisis? 116Suzanne Bartington10 The emergence of coworking models in the face of pandemic 129Ilaria Mariotti, Mina Di Marino and Mina Akhavan11 A refuge from the storm? The English Church during COVID-19 140Andrew Davies12 Coronavirus and the digitalisation of planning:perspectives from practice and academia 149Charles Goode and Ben Rayner13 Housing during and after the pandemic: an exploration ofimmediate and structural effects of COVID-19 on housingmarkets 159Vincent Gruis and Aksel Ersoy14 City-building in a context of crisis: the impacts of theCOVID-19 pandemic on residential investment in London 166Frances Brill and Mike Raco15 ‘Escape to the country’: the implications of coronavirusupon the English housing crisis 174Charles Goode16 Mobility during and after the pandemic 184Iain Docherty, Greg Marsden, Jillian Anable and Tom Forth17 Global pandemic disruptions, reconfiguration andglocalization of production networks 195Vida Vanchan18 COVID-19 and the immediate and longer-term impactson the retail and hospitality industries: dark stores andturnover-based rental models 202John R. BrysonPART IV PANDEMICS AND POLICY19 Impact, response and reflection: COVID-19 and health policy 218Steve Gulati20 Governance and policy in pandemics: approaches to crisis,chaos and catastrophe 227Jessica Pykett and Anna Lavis21 Reimagining work? COVID-19 and the impacts onemployment in Canada and the United States 237Nichola Lowe and Tara Vinodrai22 Evidence-informed COVID-19 policy: what problem wasthe UK government trying to solve? 250Paul Cairney23 In the eye of the storm: English local government and theCOVID-19 crisis 261Arianna Giovannini24 COVID-19 and the impacts on commercial aviation: a dead stop? 272Pere Suau-Sanchez, Augusto Voltes-Dorta, NatàliaCugueró-Escofet and Keith J. MasonPART V CONCLUSION25 The preparedness, responsiveness and recovery triality:a pandemic research and policy framework 286John R. Bryson, Lauren Andres, Aksel Ersoy and LouiseReardonIndex

‘This book captures a very specific moment in our current lives: the rise of a formidable pandemic, one more aggressive and more global than prior pandemics. It has already killed more people than have some of our major wars. The authors add what is too often left out: how do we prepare for future pandemics? We already know they will come.’