The Impact of COVID on Cities and Regions

Policy Responses of Local Leaders

Cities series

Edited by Peter Karl Kresl, Charles P. Vaughan Professor of Economics Emeritus, Bucknell University, US and Mattia Bertin, Adjunct Professor in Urban Planning and Design and in Disaster Planning and Post-disaster Rebuilding, Università Iuav di Venezia, Italy

最近COVID-19流行的基于“增大化现实”技术guably caused some of the most noticeable and influential societal and economic changes since World War Two. This path-breaking book investigates these changes and the subsequent responses of urban policy makers.

‘A unique contribution to understanding and analysis of the direct and indirect, private and public effects of pandemics (COVID in this case) on cities and regions and the formulation of policies to adopt and respond to such.’
– Pierre Paul Proulx, Université de Montreal, Canada

‘This edited book provides valuable insights on how cities and regions have adapted to the COVID pandemic and the post-COVID transition. The volume provides useful comparisons and case studies from the trans-Atlantic and Asia-Pacific areas on topics such as health care, remote and hybrid work, government functionality, and the overall effects of a major pandemic on the economic and social well-being of a broad range of urban centers and regions.’
– Earl Fry, Emeritus Professor of Political Science, Brigham Young University, and co-founder of the New International Cities Era project, US