Concluding remarks, trends, and future research on new working spaces

This book provided a novel understanding of the socioeconomic and spatial consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic on NeWSps such as (i) coworking spaces and smart work centres; (ii) makerspaces and other technical spaces (fab labs, open workshops); (iii) other new working spaces (hackerspaces, living labs, and corporate labs); and (iv) cofee shops and public libraries that provide formal and informal spaces for working. The contributors to the edited volume collected data from December 2020 to May 2021 (with some variations based on the cases) during the third wave of the pandemic. The results from this temporal window cannot be generalized, but they help in interpreting the complexity of the phenomenon. Moreover, this book collected pioneering research on the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on NeWSps, and it presented in a large compendium of several comparative and interdisciplinary analyses which have not yet developed within the academic debate.