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Highlights the economic and social impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic in Australian cities and the future of the cities
Discusses issues such as urban labor and housing markets, migration and mobility
Includes problems such as inequality in labor markets, housing markets, and immigration patterns
Part of the book series: Cities Research Series (CRS)
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Table of contents (8 chapters)
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Front Matter
About this book
This book highlights the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on cities. The COVID-19 pandemic and the associated economic and social impacts have been felt around the world. In large cities and other urban areas, the pandemic has highlighted a number of issues from pressures on urban labour and housing markets, shifts in demographic processes including migration and mobility, changes in urban travel patterns and pressures on contemporary planning and governance processes.
Despite Australia’s relatively mild COVID exposure, Australian cities and large urban areas have not been immune to these issues. The economic shutdown of the country in the early stages of the pandemic, the sporadic border closures between states, the effective closure of international borders and the imposition of widespread public health orders that have required significant behavioural change across the population have all changed our cities in some and the way we live and work in them in some way. Some of the challenges have reflected long-standing problems including intrenched inequality in labour markets and housing markets, others such as the impact on commuting patterns and patterns of migration have emerged largely during the pandemic.
This book, co-authored by experts in their field, outlines some of the major issues facing Australian cities and urban areas as a result of the pandemic and sets a course for future of the cities we live in.
Keywords
- Australian cities
- Urban labour
- Housing crisis
- Pandemic city
- Economic impacts
- Social impacts
- Urban areas
- Migration and mobility
- Urban planning
- Border closures
Authors and Affiliations
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Griffith University, Brisbane, Australia
Scott Baum
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School of Social Sciences, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, Australia
Emma Baker
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School of Social Sciences, University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia
Amanda Davies
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Architecture, Building and Planning, University of Melbourne, Parkville, Australia
John Stone
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Urban Planning and Design, Monash University, Clayton Victoria, Australia
Elizabeth Taylor
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Pandemic Cities
Book Subtitle: The COVID-19 Crisis and Australian Urban Regions
Authors: Scott Baum, Emma Baker, Amanda Davies, John Stone, Elizabeth Taylor
Series Title: Cities Research Series
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-5884-7
Publisher: Springer Singapore
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2022
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-19-5883-0Published: 27 September 2022
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-19-5886-1Due: 11 October 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-981-19-5884-7Published: 26 September 2022
Series ISSN: 2662-4842
Series E-ISSN: 2662-4850
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 123
Number of Illustrations: 2 b/w illustrations, 47 illustrations in colour
Topics: Sustainability, Urban Policy, Public Health, Urban Economics, Human Geography