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

‘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.’

• Contents:Introduction to The Impact of COVID on Cities and Regions ixEd Blakely and Peter Karl KreslPART I IMPACT AND RESPONSE1 Post-COVID-19 Australian urban settlement: rebuild orreposition the nation? 2Ed Blakely2 Impact and response in cities and regions: Pennsylvaniaand New York 15Peter Karl Kresl3 Why we don’t learn: COVID’s impact on cities’architecture is not being considered in new building developments 32Mattia BertinPART II CITIES AND REGIONS4 Voices from the villages: non-urban territories facingpost-COVID recovery 46Daniele Ietri5 The reshaping of work and (post-COVID) urbancompetitiveness in mid-sized metropolises: the case of Porto 58Luís Carvalho and Sabrina Sgambati6 Socio-economic dimensions of inclusiveness of smartcities in India in a post-pandemic era 74Shaleen Singhal and Madhurima Waghmare7 Post-COVID cities: some reflections on planning inuncertain times 92Javier Ruiz Sánchez and Inés Aquilué JunyentPART III SPECIFIC ISSUES8 The impact of COVID in Québec: telework, coworkingand their effects on work and city environments 111Diane-Gabrielle Tremblay9 Consequences of COVID-19 on the Barcelona labour market 129Joan Trullén and Vittorio Galletto10 Changes in the labor market by type of city in Mexicoduring the COVID pandemic, 2020–2021 145Isela Orihuela11 Working in and for the city with smartness: first partialresults from the European project IrSmart 161Gianfranco Franz12 Spatial differences in morbidity and mortality fromCOVID-19 in Mexico: a regional and metropolitan analysis 179Jaime Sobrino13 Frugal innovation in the 1.5-metre society: analysis of thehospitality sector in the metropole region Rotterdam–The Hague 197Erwin van Tuijl, Leo van den Berg, Koen Dittrich andDaniele Rossi-DoriaIndex

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

‘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.’

• Contents:Introduction to The Impact of COVID on Cities and Regions ixEd Blakely and Peter Karl KreslPART I IMPACT AND RESPONSE1 Post-COVID-19 Australian urban settlement: rebuild orreposition the nation? 2Ed Blakely2 Impact and response in cities and regions: Pennsylvaniaand New York 15Peter Karl Kresl3 Why we don’t learn: COVID’s impact on cities’architecture is not being considered in new building developments 32Mattia BertinPART II CITIES AND REGIONS4 Voices from the villages: non-urban territories facingpost-COVID recovery 46Daniele Ietri5 The reshaping of work and (post-COVID) urbancompetitiveness in mid-sized metropolises: the case of Porto 58Luís Carvalho and Sabrina Sgambati6 Socio-economic dimensions of inclusiveness of smartcities in India in a post-pandemic era 74Shaleen Singhal and Madhurima Waghmare7 Post-COVID cities: some reflections on planning inuncertain times 92Javier Ruiz Sánchez and Inés Aquilué JunyentPART III SPECIFIC ISSUES8 The impact of COVID in Québec: telework, coworkingand their effects on work and city environments 111Diane-Gabrielle Tremblay9 Consequences of COVID-19 on the Barcelona labour market 129Joan Trullén and Vittorio Galletto10 Changes in the labor market by type of city in Mexicoduring the COVID pandemic, 2020–2021 145Isela Orihuela11 Working in and for the city with smartness: first partialresults from the European project IrSmart 161Gianfranco Franz12 Spatial differences in morbidity and mortality fromCOVID-19 in Mexico: a regional and metropolitan analysis 179Jaime Sobrino13 Frugal innovation in the 1.5-metre society: analysis of thehospitality sector in the metropole region Rotterdam–The Hague 197Erwin van Tuijl, Leo van den Berg, Koen Dittrich andDaniele Rossi-DoriaIndex