Against the backdrop of contemporary debates on the transcendence of city-centric
epistemologies in urban theory, this article proposes a theoretical framework for exploring …

COVID‐19 has stimulated renewed societal and academic debate about the future of cities
and urban life. Future visons have veered from the 'death of the city'to visual renderings and …

Emerging infectious disease outbreaks have transformed the very nature of urban life
worldwide, even as the extent and experience of pandemics are shaped by the planetary …

Globalization, tourism, virtuality, climate change, and the explosive growth of cities have
generated a wide range of stressors, pollutants, and toxins that have been ravaging …

Current food systems fail to provide equity, sustainability, and positive health outcomes, thus
underscoring the critical need for their transformation. Intervening in food environments …

We are very grateful for Daniel Mullis (2021a, 2021b, 2021c) to have taken up and
expanded, but even more for having critiqued our initial paper in this journal on …

The history of cities as places of epidemic events and urbanization as the generalized
framework in which we now have to understand the emergence and spread of contagion …

In the recent decades focus on the quality of urban space has increased. In today's urban
space there are many paved areas which promote the making of hot islands and inhibit a …

COVID 19 has proved to be a challenging time worldwide. For the last three years,
academics have researched its impacts through different lenses and perspectives in many …

The model of the previous chapter represents a consolidated even if not obvious dynamic.
The main reference is made up of globalization which has largely dragged the other …