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‘I will stay here’: public space and social inequality during the COVID-19 pandemic

Gutiérrez, Fernando; (2023) ‘I will stay here’: public space and social inequality during the COVID-19 pandemic. Journal of Urban Design pp. 1-17. 10.1080/13574809.2023.2245336. (In press). Green open access

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Abstract

The implementation of city lockdowns in response to the COVID-19 pandemic exposed some social inequalities in Mexico. The paper evaluates the effects of the closure of the Alameda Central, a public park in the Historic Centre of Mexico City. It examines how its closure affected some vulnerable populations, including homeless people, beggars, street vendors, buskers, and male sex workers, to the extent that they resisted leaving or found ways to return to public space. The research shows how Mexican COVID-19 policies tended to overlook the diversity of populations making use of public space, and their various necessities.

Type: Article
Title: ‘I will stay here’: public space and social inequality during the COVID-19 pandemic
Open access status: An open access version is available from UCL Discovery
DOI: 10.1080/13574809.2023.2245336
Publisher version: https://doi.org/10.1080/13574809.2023.2245336
Language: English
Additional information: © 2023 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).
Keywords: Public space, social inequality, COVID-19, city lockdown, Alameda Central, Historic Centre of Mexico City
UCL classification: UCL
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of the Built Environment
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of the Built Environment > The Bartlett School of Architecture
URI: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10175862
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