Planning for the Post-Covid-19 'New Normal': Trends and Scenarios for Cities in the United Kingdom.

Planning for the Post-Covid-19 "New Normal": Trends and Scenarios for Cities in the United Kingdom It concentrates on health, economy, education, mobility and culture at the core of Covid-19 impact debates, and focuses on spontaneous changes triggered by Covid-19, how they may affect the future of cities and what the role of planning may become in shaping the "post-Covid-19" or more likely the "withCovid-19" "new normal". Considering all such transformations preand during Covid-19, the eventual move to a "postCovid-19" or "with-Covid-19" "new normal" will be a challenge for planning, bearing in mind that a return to the pre-Covid-19 "normal" is unlikely. The tentative scenarios of post-Covid-19 or "with-Covid-19" "new-normals" draw on the adjustments made during the pandemic and envisage how they may be incorporated into pressing pre-Covid-19 planning issues in the UK, foremost climate change and the Brexit economy. [Extracted from the article]