Dear colleagues,

We warmly invite you to join our upcoming webinar on post-COVID-19 urban mobility in global south cities, organised by the Development Planning Unit of University College London. Below is the registration link and a summary of the webinar topic and speakers. Apologies for cross-posting.

*** Post COVID-19 Urban Futures webinar series - No. 7***
*** Urban mobility: responses, challenges and prospects for urban transformation***

Registration: https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_x2cXKHxlQE2RkKvt3PSt-g


The global outbreak of the coronavirus COVID-19 has brought cities to a standstill in a matter of months as a consequence of social distancing measures enforced by national and local governments worldwide. Such measures have produced meaningful changes in the daily activity and mobility patterns of the world's urban population and made evident social, spatial and health inequalities associated with urban mobility.



In cities of the global south, where millions deal with acute conditions of poverty and limited access to formal livelihoods, social security, and basic connectivity to material and digital infrastructures, measures to control local outbreaks are likely to increase already large social gaps between the poor and the rest of society.

In the wake of pandemic-related constraints, social groups in urban societies have adapted to different degrees to a new normality marked by remote working and digital accessibility to employment, education, culture and social interactions. By contrast, a large share of low-income and other socially vulnerable citizens has faced the loss of their main activities, while others have been forced to engage in physical travel and exposure to contagion in order to maintain their livelihoods and access essential goods and services.



This webinar draws from experiences from multiple realities across Latin America, Africa and Asia to reflect on the crisis and the wide array of government responses in cities in terms of urban mobility. Through discussions with practitioners, decision-makers and academics, we address important questions for the future of urban transport policy and planning, the effects of the crisis on public transport, and the feasibility of policies aiming at improving local accessibility and non-motorised mobility from a transport equity perspective.



Speakers:



Fatima Arroyo Arroyo - Urban Transport Specialist, The World Bank.

Holger Dalkman - Founder and CEO, Sustain 2030 and senior advisor for DFID High-Volume Transport Programme

Patricia Lynn Scholl - Senior Transport Specialist, Inter-American Development Bank

Joseph Macarthy - Co-Director, Sierra Leone Urban Research Centre

Gina Porter - Professor, Durham University

Juan Pablo Bocarejo - Former Mobility Secretary of Bogotá and Associate Professor, Universidad de los Andes

Rutul Joshi - Associate Professor, CEPT University



Discussant: Caren Levy - Professor, Development Planning Unit, UCL


With best wishes,

Dr Daniel Oviedo
Lecturer in Urban Transport and Development Planning

The Bartlett Development Planning Unit (DPU<https://www.ucl.ac.uk/bartlett/development/>)
34 Tavistock Square, London WC1H 9EZ, UK
Tel: 44 (0)20 7679 5584  | Int: 25584 | [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> | @danieloviedoh



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