Tess Osborne is Lecturer and Researcher in Human Geography at the University of Groningen, the Netherlands. Director, Urban Pollinators Stijn Oosterlynck is Associate Professor in Urban Sociology at the University of Antwerp. His research is concerned with local social innovation and welfare state restructuring, the political sociology of urban development, urban renewal and community building and new forms of solidarity in diversity. Rianne van Melik is Assistant Professor in Urban Geography at the Institute for Management Research (IMR), Radboud University, Nijmegen, the Netherlands. Pierre Filion is Professor at the School of Planning, University of Waterloo, Canada. Brian Doucet is the Canada Research Chair in Urban Change and Social Inclusion and an Associate Professor in the School of Planning at the University of Waterloo, Canada.
This book provides an excellent collection of critical views that make us think about the changing meaning of public space in its relation to human beings and their mobility in the post COVID-19 era. It operationalizes abstract concepts like 'justice' and 'inequality' through colorful and diverse examples of public spaces from all over the world, illustrated by critical scholars. Tuna Tasan-Kok, University of Amsterdam