Pandemic Recovery?

Edited by Lauren Andres, Professor of Planning and Urban Transformations, The Bartlett School of Planning, University College London, John R. Bryson, Professor of Enterprise and Economic Geography, Department of Strategy and International Business, Birmingham Business School, University of Birmingham, 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: Pandemic Recovery? Reframing and RescalingBroader Societal Challenges xxiAcknowledgements xxv1 Introduction: shock chains and parallel shocks: towardsa social science of the recovery society 1John R. Bryson, Lauren Andres, Aksel Ersoy and Louise ReardonPART I PEOPLE2 Shocks, recovery processes and cultivating urbanplasticity: a neuroplasticity-informed perspective on urbanresilience 27Joshua Kearney, John R. Bryson, Matthew Broome,Joanne Leach, Carlo Luiu, Francis Pope and Jonathan Radcliffe3 Covid, telecommuting, and ethnic inequalities in the United States 42Barney Warf4 Addressing disparities and housing precarity: a pandemicrecovery agenda 61Brenda Parker and Catherine Leviten-Reid5 Women in the urban informal economy and pathwaystowards inclusive cities 78Rets’epile C. Kalaoane and Abraham R. Matamanda6 The precariat and the age of permanent crisis: a researchagenda for urban planning in India 95Surajit ChakravartyPART II ORGANISATIONS7 The central and local state after Covid: contesting thegovernance paradigm 113Patrick Diamond and Martin Laffin8 Food resilient urbanism: reconstructing hunger with NGOs 125Lucy Natarajan, Hyunji Cho, Bernice Yanful andAbigail Woodward9 Work after COVID-19 – is it bringing us closer toa post-carbon future? 140Andrew Herod10 Production space in the post-pandemic era: the intra-urbanevolution of office districts 152William Graves, Chuck McShane and Jonathan Kozar11 Strategic decoupling, selective decoupling or recouplingof global supply chains in manufacturing GPNs during thepost-COVID-19 era 164Godfrey YeungPART III PLACE12 Artificial intelligence and post-pandemic recovery 178Aksel Ersoy, Luciano Cavalcante Siebert, Tong Wang andPaul Chan13 Recovery from the pandemic: planning thereterritorialisation of agricultural activities 187Tianzhu Liu, Willem K. Korthals Altes, Frédéric Walletand Romain Melot14 The intersecting political and health crises in Hong Kongand the socio-economic and political consequences 199May Chu15 Remote work, coworking spaces, and wellbeing during theCOVID-19 pandemic and beyond: exploring peripheraland rural areas 210Francesca Chiara Ciccarelli and Ilaria MariottiPART IV CLIMATE CHANGE AND SUSTAINABILITY16 What are the prospects of a just transition towardssustainable climate change policies? The search forpractical lessons from policy studies 224Paul Cairney, Irina Timonina and Hannes Stephan17 The impact of the pandemic on circular innovation,transitions and research 238Joanna Williams and Rendy Bayu Aditya18 Inflection points and discontinuities? Pandemic recovery,experiential consumption, and the emergence of circulareconomy retail business models 251John R. Bryson and Yinghao Zhang19 Flexible working and the future of urban mobility: a novelconceptual framework 267Li Wan and Jerry Chen20 Sustainable aviation after COVID-19: will technologysave all, or a more radical change is required? 289Pol Fontanet-Pérez, Pere Suau-Sanchez and Xosé H. VázquezPART V THE POLICY AND PRACTICE OF RECOVERY21 Pandemic recovery? Reframing and rescaling societal challenges 304Martin Hurst22 Response, recovery and resilience: the role of healthcare leaders 314Steve Gulati and Sheena Gohal23 The magic of ordinary rather than extraordinaryresilience? Higher education and longer-term pandemic impacts 325John R. Bryson, Lauren Andres, Aksel Ersoy and Louise Reardon24 The value of public domain and placemaking rediscovered 336Wouter J. Verheul25 Comeback tourism: a critical research approach 350Lars FuglsangPART VI CONCLUSION26 Fragmented recoveries and proactive adaptability: newparadigm shifts, and theoretical directions to unpackingrecovery processes and behavioural change 362Lauren Andres, John R. Bryson, Aksel Ersoy and Louise ReardonIndex 385

‘For Pandemic Recovery?, the editors assembled a series of 24 discrete essays, prefaced by a framing introduction and summarized with a conclusion, that delve into the less obvious societal implications of the pandemic, changes that can have significant impact on everyday life but are all but unseen as catalysts of change.’