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Urban change and the uneven geography of Covid-19 lockdowns: Insights from the use of running as a method in Lisbon
| Resumo: | Though much has been written on the urban politics of the Covid-19 pandemic, systematic, qualitative data on the uneven geography of the lockdowns are fundamentally missing, in large part because of the limitations of stay-at-home orders for fieldwork research. This article reports from the first study to have directly observed, and systematically mapped, the uneven distribution of the impacts of a lockdown over a city and its public spaces. Between January and March 2021, during Portugal’s second national lockdown, I used running as a method to collect observational data on public spaces of the city of Lisbon. Building on this systematic mapping, I link the geography of impacts of the lockdown with trajectories of urban change: on the one hand, I reflect on the variegation of impacts vis-` a-vis patterns of uneven urban development; and, on the other, discuss the role of visibility and vitality of activities in the public space in shaping the political rationalities of the lockdown. |
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| Autores principais: | Tulumello, Simone |
| Assunto: | Pandemic urbanism Urban politic Urban change Public space Urban life |
| Ano: | 2025 |
| País: | Portugal |
| Tipo de documento: | artigo |
| Tipo de acesso: | acesso aberto |
| Instituição associada: | Universidade de Lisboa |
| Idioma: | inglês |
| Origem: | Repositório da Universidade de Lisboa |
| Resumo: | Though much has been written on the urban politics of the Covid-19 pandemic, systematic, qualitative data on the uneven geography of the lockdowns are fundamentally missing, in large part because of the limitations of stay-at-home orders for fieldwork research. This article reports from the first study to have directly observed, and systematically mapped, the uneven distribution of the impacts of a lockdown over a city and its public spaces. Between January and March 2021, during Portugal’s second national lockdown, I used running as a method to collect observational data on public spaces of the city of Lisbon. Building on this systematic mapping, I link the geography of impacts of the lockdown with trajectories of urban change: on the one hand, I reflect on the variegation of impacts vis-` a-vis patterns of uneven urban development; and, on the other, discuss the role of visibility and vitality of activities in the public space in shaping the political rationalities of the lockdown. |
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