Assessing Urban Policies in a COVID-19 World

Przemysław Śleszyński, Paulina Legutko-Kobus, Mark Rosenberg, Viktoriya Pantyley and Maciej J. Nowak
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Przemysław Śleszyński: Institute of Geography and Spatial Organization, Polish Academy of Sciences, 00-818 Warsaw, Poland
Paulina Legutko-Kobus: Department of Public Policy, Warsaw School of Economics (SGH), 02-554 Warsaw, Poland
Mark Rosenberg: Health and Development, Queen’s University, Kingston, ON K7L 3N6, Canada
Viktoriya Pantyley: Department of Social and Economic Geography, Maria Curie-Skłodowska University, 20-031 Lublin, Poland
Maciej J. Nowak: Real Estate Department, West Pomeranian University of Technology, 70-310 Szczecin, Poland

IJERPH, 2022, vol. 19, issue 9, 1-19

Abstract: The aim of this study was to identify how the literature analyzes (identifies, evaluates, forecasts, etc.) the relationship between health issues and urban policy in relation to the COVID-19 pandemic. Four main levels were identified in these cases: (1) direct demands for changes in health care, (2) social issues, (3) spatial organization and (4) redefining the tasks of public authority in the face of identified challenges. The basic working method used in the study assumed a critical analysis of the literature on the subject. The time scope of the search covered articles from January 2020 to the end of August 2021 (thus covering the period of three pandemic waves). Combinations of keywords in the titles were used to search for articles. The health perspective pointed to the need for urban policies to develop a balance between health and economic costs and for coordination between different professionals/areas. A prerequisite for such a balance in cities is the carrying out of social and spatial analyses. These should illustrate the diversity of the social situations in individual cities (and more broadly in urban areas, including, sometimes, large suburbs) and the diversity’s relationship (both in terms of causes and consequences) to the severity of pandemics and other health threats.

Keywords: urban politics; COVID-19 pandemic; social issues; spatial organization; public authority; future of spatial and urban policy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I I1 I3 Q Q5 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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