The 'New Normal' in Planning, Governance and Participation: Transforming Urban Governance in a Post-pandemic World

This book offers a unique and timely contribution, informed by responses to the COVID—19 pandemic, to unpack the intertwined challenges that planning needs to cope with in the future. It argues that the pandemic and post—pandemic periods, in their successive waves of restrictions and social distancing, have disrupted ‘normal’ practices but have also contributed to shaping a ‘new normal’. The new normal is emerging, re—configuring, and prioritizing the substantive objects of planning and its...