The crisis strikingly exposed inequality across people and places, especially in large cities, where vulnerable groups such as migrants, the poor, women and the elderly were hit hard.ĥ. The rediscovery of proximity provides a window to shift faster from a target of increasing mobility to one of enhancing accessibility by revisiting public space, urban design & planning.Ĥ. The health crisis turned into a major economic and social shock and cities’ exposure and recovery depends on industrial composition, labour market breakdown and trade openness.ģ. COVID-19 had asymmetrical impacts across territories but many policy responses were place-blind and uniform, highlighting the need for place-based and people-centred approaches.Ģ.
This policy note draws 10 key lessons from the crisis to build back better cities.ġ. COVID-19 accelerated the shift towards a new urban paradigm towards inclusive, green and smart cities. They play a key role to implement nation-wide measures, but also provide laboratories for bottom-up and innovative recovery strategies. Annex C maps efforts from selected organisations and city networks to collect city responses and foster knowledge and experience sharing.Ĭities are on the frontline of responses to the COVID-19 crisis.
Annex B provides more detailed information on the inventoried city initiatives during lockdown and exiting. Annex A provides more detailed information on long-term city recovery strategies. The note also includes updated information on how cities are progressively exiting the lockdown. Short and medium term responses provided by cities are clustered around six categories: i) social distancing ii) workplace and commuting iii) vulnerable groups iv) local service delivery v) support to business and vi) communication, awareness raising and digital tools. The note provides analysis on issues related to the economic, social and environmental impacts, lessons learned in terms of digitalisation, mobility, density, urban design and collaborative governance, and action-oriented guidance to build back better cities, building on previous work on urban resilience.
It is an update of the earlier versions released on 27 March and 13 May, which expands the examples of measures taken by cities to respond to COVID-19 and recover from the economic and social crisis. This note was developed by the OECD Centre for Entrepreneurship, SMEs, Regions and Cities (CFE) in collaboration with the OECD Working Party for Urban Policy and the OECD Champion Mayors Initiative for Inclusive Growth.
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