The city in the post-COVID era: centrifugal trends and functional changes

Abstract

The contribution analyses "The city in era (post) covid: between centrifugal trends and functional changes", with attention to the context, the reading tools and the implications for policies. Rents instead, which capture more timely variations in unstable housing demand suffer a sharp decline everywhere, resulting in these cities mainly from the lack of attendance of students and visitors; Venice and Florence in fact show the biggest losses. A push to change its housing situation, to cope with the problems that emerged during the months of forced closing (from limited domestic environments, to the lack of external space) and which does not find correspondence in the housing offer of the main urban centers. Competition for the most central localizations has often turned into conflict at the expense of the functions related to the stable residence and giving impetus to the centrifugal tendencies species of some segments of population. Data processing Real estate scenarios The effects of what is described are readable by looking at real estate listings related to tertiary functions and commerce, where the results of the substantial decrease in the demand for space to be allocated to such activities are read.

Keywords

urban economy; Public health; real estate market; prices and competition; COVID-19 pandemic; Local authorities

JEL codes

I18; R58; R11