COVID-19 as a game-changer? The impact of the pandemic on urban trajectories.

ABSTRACT: Will the COVID-19 pandemic interrupt the recent European urbanization trends - and if so - what is the magnitude of this sudden shock, and how deaths, births, and net migration contribute to this disruption? Until now, most discussions on the topic have circled either around the anecdotal evidence of city center decline, or contrarian speculations about residential inertia and the forthcoming business-as-usual. Bringing clarity to the uncertainty and confusion surrounding COVID-19, this paper seeks to detect overarching patterns in and the magnitude of its sudden shock to long-term urban trajectories, understood as a reversal of the pre-pandemic population development trend, across European cities in the early 2020s. It reveals that during the first year of COVID-19, populati

SUBMITTER: Wolff M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9797415 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature