Contents

pp v-viii

List of Figures

pp ix-ix

Notes on Contributors

pp x-xiii

Acknowledgments

pp xiv-xiv

Preface to All Four Volumes of Global Reflections on COVID-19 and Urban Inequalities

pp xv-xxii

One - Introduction

pp 1-16

Part I - Housing Markets, Systems, Design, and Policies

pp 17-18

Two - Is COVID-19 a Housing Disease? Housing, COVID-19 Risk, and COVID-19 Harms in the UK

pp 19-30

Three - De-Gentrification or Disaster Gentrification? Debating the Impact of COVID-19 on Anglo-American Urban Gentrification

pp 31-40

Four - ‘Living in a Glass Box’: The Intimate City in the Time of COVID-19

pp 41-52

Five - Mardin Lockdown Experience: Strategies for a More Tolerant Urban Development

pp 53-64

Six - Towards the Post-Pandemic (Healthy) City: Barcelona’s Poblenou Superblock Challenges and Opportunities

pp 65-74

Seven - Urban Crises and COVID-19 in Brazil: Poor People, Victims Again

pp 75-84

Eight - Flexible Temporalities, Flexible Trajectories: Montreal’s Nursing Home Crisis as an Example of Temporary Workers’ Complicated Urban Labor Geographies

pp 85-94

Part II - Experiences of Housing and Home During the Pandemic

pp 95-96

Nine - Bold Words, a Hero or a Traitor? Fang Fang’s Diaries of the Wuhan Lockdown on Chinese Social Media

pp 97-108

Ten - The COVID-19 Lockdown and the Impact of Poor-Quality Housing on Occupants in the UK

pp 109-118

Eleven - Aging at Home: The Elderly in Gauteng, South Africa in the Context of COVID-19

pp 119-128

Twelve - COVID-19, Lockdown(s), and Housing Inequalities among Families with Autistic Children in London

pp 129-140

Thirteen - Detroit’s Work to Address the Pandemic for Older Adults: A City of Challenge, History, and Resilience

pp 141-152

Fourteen - Ethnic Enclaves in a Time of Plague: A Comparative Analysis of New York City and Chicago

pp 153-162

Fifteen - Migration in the Times of Immobility: Liminal Geographies of Walking and Dispossession in India

pp 163-174

Sixteen - Living through a Pandemic in the Shadows of Gentrification and Displacement: Experiences of Marginalized Residents in Waterloo Region, Canada

pp 175-188

Seventeen - Cities Under Lockdown: Public Health, Urban Vulnerabilities, and Neighborhood Planning in Dublin

pp 189-198

Eighteen - Conclusion

pp 199-204

Index

pp 205-213