Rianne van Melik is Assistant Professor in Urban Geography at the Institute for Management Research (IMR), Radboud University, Nijmegen, the Netherlands.Pierre Filion is Professor at the School of Planning, University of Waterloo, Canada.Brian Doucet is Associate Professor and Canada Research Chair in Urban Change and Social Inclusion at the School of Planning, University of Waterloo, Canada.

• Introduction ~ Rianne van Melik, Pierre Filion & Brian DoucetPart 1: What Constitutes Public Space?Public Space and COVID-19: New Social Practices, Intensified Inequalities ~ Loren March and Ute LehrerPandemic Pop-Ups and the Performance of Legality ~ Alexandra Flynn and Amelia ThorpeLessons From the Lockdown: Foregrounding Non-Privileged Perspectives Into the (Post-)COVID-19 City Debate ~ Luce Beeckmans and Stijn Oosterlynck“Everybody Has To Move, You Can’t Stand Still”: Policing of Vulnerable Urban Populations During the COVID-19 Pandemic in Brussels ~ Mattias De Backer and Lucas MelgaçoParks in a Pandemic: Attachments, Absences and Exclusions ~ Julian DobsonFailure by Design? Neoliberalism, Public Space and the (Im)possibility of Lockdown Compliance in the UK ~ Conor WilsonA Place for Life: Striving Towards Accessible and Equitable Public Spaces for Times of Crisis and Beyond ~ Anaid Yerena and Rubén CasasPart 2: Public Space and Human Well-BeingHow Can Inequalities in Access to Green Space Be Addressed in a Post-Pandemic World? Lessons From London ~ Meredith Whitten and Peter MassiniAmerica Under COVID-19: The Plight of the Old ~ Setha Low and Anastasia Loukaitou-SiderisExploring Older Adults’ Experiences of Urban Space in the COVID-19 Lockdowns: Dutch and British Perspectives ~ Tess Osborne, Arlinde Dul and Louise MeijeringPublic Libraries in Crises: Between Spaces of Care and Information Infrastructures ~ Alice Corble and Rianne Van MelikThe City and the Park in Times of Pandemic: Children’s Practices in Public Spaces Before and After the Lockdown in Porto, Portugal ~ Júlia Rodrigues, Lígia Ferro, João Teixeira Lopes and Eunice Castro SeixasThe Mundane and (Extra)ordinary Public Spaces in India: Examining the Impact of COVID-19 Pandemic Through an Everyday Lens in Chennai City ~ Lakshmi Priya Rajendran and Aamstrong AnjumuthuThe Resilience of Street Vendors in Surviving COVID-19 Crisis in Hanoi, Vietnam ~ Ha Minh Hai Thai, Phuong Quoc Dinh and Phuong Thu NguyenPart 3: Public Space and MobilityCity Cycling After COVID-19 for Interspecies Mobility Justice ~ Nicholas ScottMobility Justice and Social Inequality During the COVID-19 Pandemic in Jakarta ~ Harya S. Dillon and Deden RukmanaPandemic and Future-Proofing Cities: Pedestrian-Oriented Development as an Alternative Model to Transit-Based Intensification Centres ~ Neluka Leanage and Pierre FilionMercurial Images of the COVID-19 City ~ Emma ArnoldConclusion ~ Rianne Van Melik, Brian Doucet and Pierre Filion