Afterword: from austerity to COVID-19 and beyond

Adrian Bua Roberts, Jonathan S. Davies, Ismael Ivan Blanco Fillola, Ioannis Chorianopoulos, M. Cortina-Oriol , Andrés Feandeiro, Niamh Gaynor, Brendan Gleeson, Steven Griggs, Pierre Hamel, Hayley Henderson, David Howarth, Roger Keil, Madeleine Pill, Yunailis Salazar Marcano, Helen Sullivan

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Abstract

Our research concluded some time before the outbreak of COVID-19, but we suggest that many of the insights drawn from it, about austerity and collaboration, will be useful in considering ways forward from the pandemic. In the first instance, it seems clear that austerity made COVID-19 an even more iniquitous disease than it would in any case have been, with cities and urban peripheries the heart of both contagion and suffering (Biglieri, De Vidovich and Keil, 2020). The disease has unsurprisingly had a multitude of impacts on our cities, often linked to austerity. We therefore conclude further with an Afterword from the eight, including reflections on developments since the end of the research, impacts of COVID-19 and possible signs that it might be possible to ‘build back better’.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationNew Developments in Urban Governance
Subtitle of host publicationRethinking Collaboration in the Age of Austerity
PublisherBristol University Press
Pages138-157
Number of pages20
ISBN (Print)9781529205831
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 21 Jan 2022

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