A year into the pandemic: shifts, improvisations and impacts for places, people and policy

The catalyst for this book emerged in late 2019 with the first reports of a<br/>‘mystery pneumonia’ taking hold in the Chinese city of Wuhan (Horton,<br/>2020). This virus was confirmed by authorities as a new type of Severe Acute<br/>Respiratory Syndrome coronavirus (SARS) and given the acronym COVID-19<br/>(‘co’ for corona, ‘vi’ for virus and ...

How Co-design of Public Space Contributes to Strengthening Resilience: Lessons from Two Chilean Cases

The implementation of adaptation measures and the improvement of urban resilience is a growing concern recently. While urban projects are encouraged to become resilient, there is an interest in the design processes that produce them. In the Latin-American context, co-design is gradually taking a central role in space production, recognizing...

Introduction: Shock chains and parallel shocks: Towards a social science of the recovery society

Any one shock is never isolated from other shocks and any one recovery process will be complicated by further related and unrelated shocks and their related recovery processes. This chapter highlights the interactions that occur between shocks that are experienced in parallel or simultaneously and those that occur linearly and take the form of...

Fragmented recoveries and proactive adaptability: New paradigm shifts, and theoretical directions to unpacking recovery processes and behavioural change

The nature of shocks and crisis is highly diverse; crises and shocks tend to conglomerate rather than occur as single events. People and places are affected differently and have distinct abilities and resources to respond, cope and recover. Key here are path-dependent socio-economic living conditions along with pre-existent intersectional...

The magic of ordinary rather than extraordinary resilience?: Higher education and longer-term pandemic impacts

COVID-19 initially closed universities forcing rapid adoption of online teaching. This chapter reflects on pandemic recovery in the context of higher education and explores some of the longer-term impacts that the pandemic has had on academic practice. Recovery is a complex and highly differentiated process and is founded upon resilience that is...

Artificial intelligence and post-pandemic recovery

Artificial Intelligence (AI) has become one of the most dicussed topics of today and are being used to support solving complex problems. AI has given opportunities for efficiency, control, safety while raising issues around trust, optimism and responsibility. One of the prominent features of AI resides in the digitalization of the built...

Integrating Environmental Sustainability in Construction and Real Estate Management Education

It is recommended to integrate specific management competencies in academic education to support the transition towards environmentally sustainable practices, particularly in the construction and real estate sector. This paper explores how architectural management education can integrate environmental sustainability within its current university...