Cities in the Shadow of Pandemic and Climate Crisis

Introduction 9 Ewelina Biczyńska, Mirosława Czerny I. The pandemic and the urban space The SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus pandemic and the city’s spatial policy directions 19 Sylwia Dudek-Mańkowska, Mirosław Grochowski Active recreation as leisure activity of inhabitants of large cities in Poland during the COVID-19 pandemic. An attempt at a qualitative approach 37 Małgorzata Durydiwka, Renata Krukowska, Alina Zajadacz Habitability and gastronomic gentrifi cation of public space in the times of COVID-19. The case of La Condesa neighbourhood in Mexico City 64 Alberto Javier Villar Calvo, Yadira Contreras Juárez, Luis Arturo Cruz García The impact of the COVID-19 epidemic on the change of Warsaw information layout illustrated by the examples of the PGE Narodowy Stadium and the tenement house at 37 Tamka Street 95 Jan Zygmunt Kowalski II. Designing cities for people The concept of the compassionate city as a response to the demographic and social challenges of European cities. A comparative analysis of Berlin and Warsaw 113 Jan Goliński, Wojciech Dziemianowicz Physical barriers constraining walkability in cities. Case study of Warsaw, Poland 137 Karolina Sitnik Functional mix on a city scale. Case study of Warsaw, Poland 151 Maciej Misztal “Welcome to the park!” – Management and promotion of urban green spaces through the lens of local government social media 167 Sylwia Kulczyk, Kacper Kuzak, Tomasz Grzyb Development of cities, the right to the city, and governance, as exemplifi ed by Villavicencio, Colombia 180 Mirosława Czerny Building social capital through climate change mitigation based on the example of Warsaw, Poland 193 Michelle Mbazuigwe New Urbanism in assessing sustainability of Polish and American suburbs 206 Dorota Mantey Possibility of implementing the Barcelona Superblocks model in the post-COVID-19 city. Refl ections on Latin America 231 Maciej Kałaska III. Contemporary urban processes Fragmentation, segregation, and governance in rural urbanisation through housing developments in Calimaya, Mexico 247 Alan Noe Jim Carrillo Arteaga, Brian Eric Carrillo Arteaga, Ruth Moreno Barajas Social representations, public space, and consumption in the city of Metepec, State of Mexico, Mexico 260 José Juan Méndez Ramírez, Teresa Becerril Sánchez Understanding ‘outstanding’: An urban-rural cultural landscape facing tourism development. Case study of Salento, Colombia 276 Sonia Uribe, Sylwia Kulczyk The city of La Plata – its development against the background of European ideas of ideal cities of the nineteenth century 301 Agnieszka Dudzińska-Jarmolińska IV. The crisis and the response Urban agriculture as an element of mitigation- adaptation strategy: a response to climate and food crises 319 Ada Górna Towards the construction of a territorial human development index. An approach from the metropolitan perspective 332 Mónica Guadalupe González Yñigo, Arturo Venancio Flores Workers’ adaptation strategies in a highly informal labour market during the COVID-19 pandemic. The case of Metropolitan Lima 344 Agnieszka Olter-Castillo, Jose Enrique Castillo Sanchez Mexico and social vulnerability to fl oods in 2020 375 Luis Alberto Olín Fabela, Fermín Carreño Meléndez Impact of internal armed confl icts on tourism in urban centres, a context analysis 389 Salvador Gerardo Gonzalez Cruz, David Horacio García Waldman, Hernando Castro Garzón COVID-19 pandemic and geographic space in Mexico. A perspective of differences in comorbidities by sex 398 Giovanna Santana Castañeda, Rebeca Angélica Serrano Barquín, Marcela Virginia Santana Juárez