dc.description.abstract | This Review of World Planning Practice (Volume 18), titled Towards Healthy Cities:
Urban Governance, Planning and Design for Human Well-being, adds to the enormous debate on the role of cities and the phenomenon of urbanisation in relation
to the pandemic triggered by the coronavirus. Its papers spontaneously prompt
the question: Is it this uncontrolled urbanisation that creates conditions for pandemics, and specifically the dramatic experience linked to Covid-19, or is it the experience of the pandemic that will change the way we urbanise, also in the sense
of slowing down urbanisation, and the way we will design the contemporary city?
The papers selected for this Review open up different perspectives, some utopian, as it should be when one talks about innovating and changing the city,
others more founded on paths tested in other urban phenomena, such as urban
regeneration, the fight against social exclusion, the quest for sustainability, or the
design of public spaces... | sr |