What future for European cities after COVID-19? An international survey

Can cities as collective actors prepare, react against, and actively monitor unprecedented shifts like a worldwide pandemic? The evidence is scattered and still unclear; however, signs of collective action through a wide range of new practices in work, leisure, travel, tourism and culture activities are witnessed by the international survey conducted in 2020 in world cities in Europe, Africa, North and Latin America and Asia. Results are interesting as some common features emerge, notwithstanding the huge variety of cities involved.