Speake, Janet and Pentaraki, Maria (2022) COVID-19, city centre streetscapes, and public health signage. Cities & Health. ISSN 2374-8834
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Abstract
In this paper, we reflect on the changes to cityscapes during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic. We focus specifically on the relationships between COVID-19 communication, which took place via advertisements and messages located in urban spaces, and contemporary neoliberal politics. Particular attention is given to on-street official government public health communications and their visual impacts and wider socio-economic implications, exemplified through the lens of Belfast, Northern Ireland. We reflect on, first the transitions from pre-pandemic to pandemic streetscape signage and messages, secondly ephemerality in streetscapes under COVID-19 conditions, thirdly the rapidity of change in COVID-19 related public health signage and messages and finally structural constraints of COVID-19 related public health signage. This messaging has also made visible government responses to the pandemic and revealed official (re)emergent concerns (or lack of) for people’s health and well-being.
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| Additional Information and Comments: | This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Cities and Health on 22/7/2022, available online: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/23748834.2022.2091339 |
| Keywords: | COVID-19; cityscape; public health messaging; neoliberalism; bricolage; reflective thought piece |
| Faculty / Department: | Faculty of Human and Digital Sciences > School of Computer Science and the Environment |
| Depositing User: | Janet Speake |
| Date Deposited: | 07 Sep 2022 13:26 |
| Last Modified: | 14 Jan 2025 10:17 |
| URI: | https://hira.hope.ac.uk/id/eprint/3595 |
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