Planning and the Post-Pandemic City

The Covid-19 pandemic has left society dazed and confused. Self-evidently momentous, its multifaceted impacts upon the functioning and experience of city living have been swift and deep. This has precipitated a range of laudable research in planning, which, among other foci, has sought to examine how the disruption is amplifying inequities (Cole et al., 2020), improving urban environmental quality (Sharifi & Khavarian-Garmsir, 2020) and generating enhanced demand for public space (Sepe, 2021; Ugolini et al., 2020). The pandemic has also heightened interest in re-engaging planning with its roots in public health (Lennon, 2020; Scott, 2020).