Our cities have been plagued by economic injustices and inequalities long before COVID-19 upended urban life everywhere. 'Beyond Plague Urbanism' delves into this zone of urban pathology and asks what successive lockdowns and exoduses, remote work and small-business collapse, redundant office space and unaffordable living space portend for our society in cities. Andy Merrifield journeys intercontinentally as he reflects on these questions, in a narrative that moves imaginatively between plague and populist politics, the US Main Street and the British High Street, overcrowding and undercrowding, the right to the city today and eco-cities of tomorrow.
