Urban Lifestyle Research Articles

Urban comics and social justice: restructuring neoliberal spaces of Delhi in Sarnath Banerjee’s all quiet in Vikaspuri

ABSTRACT The present paper seeks to focus on one of the prominent aspects of South Asian comics; the nature of urbanity, through a study of Sarnath Banerjee’s All Quiet in Vikaspuri, a narrative primarily set in Delhi. Banerjee’s Delhi is the space of the capitalists, urban planners, and corrupt policies; in short a ‘social product’, as Henri Lefebvre had formulated. The paper will examine how Delhi, in Banerjee’s comics, is symptomatic of various states of discriminatory infrastructural development, failure and violence endemic to the system, as in many other emerging South Asian cities. It will further investigate the dynamics of uneven development and urban inequality of Delhi to argue the emergence of new socio-spatial and economic trajectories in post-liberalisation India. The paper seeks to argue that through the multiple references to pulp fictions, mythic and hybrid spaces, Banerjee maps the nuanced changes in urban lifestyle and the more liberal shift towards exclusionary spatial practices such as ‘short-termism’, but also present alternative histories and regional resistance of the lived space that go against the planned space of the city. Finally, the paper will borrow insights from theorists such as Sanjay Srivastava, Ananya Roy, David Harvey, and others to argue how social and spatial justice can be achieved through urban comics that, according to Dominic Davies, helps to restructure ‘more socially and spatially just cities’.

Consumerism and gendering in food culture: a study of urban Kerala

ABSTRACT Food culture is a fast-changing phenomenon in contemporary society. Existing literature about the changes in food culture implies that industrialization, urbanization, and a dynamic market are the key factors that transformed food practices among many societies. The study explored the changes in urban practices related to food in post-liberal Kerala through a social survey among 200 households in Thiruvananthapuram, the capital of Kerala. The study revealed a complex interplay of urban lifestyle, innovative markets, and gendered homes. The drastic changes that materialized in the food practices are also credited to the stagnant gender hierarchy in the households. Most households interviewed have employed women who lack the time and convenience to invest more time in cooking staple South Indian dishes, which reflects the gender dimensions of food culture. While most households retained their traditional cuisines, the source and mode of procurement are subsumed mainly by big supermarket chains. There also, changes occurred in the attitude toward eating and cooking. Food is now not just an indispensable commodity for survival but also a component of showcasing and pleasure. The paper highlights the need for further interdisciplinary explorations of food culture in urban Kerala.

Services for sustainable future lifestyle in smart blocks—empowering people to make a difference

It is crucial to find new ways to support the ecological, economic and social sustainability of the built environment in the urban context. This paper aims to contribute new knowledge on service opportunities related to sustainable future urban lifestyles and thus to support the sustainability progress of the built environment. The paper is based on an on-going abductive study. As a main conceptual contribution, the tentative illustration of key elements of service innovations for future sustainable urban living is presented. The empirical results highlighted three issues related to realising service opportunities that can support the needed transformation of urban living. These are: 1) the systemic nature of the required change and contribution of multiple stakeholders, 2) as a consequence the need for co-creation in the ecosystem was acknowledged and 3) the need for better indicators for evaluating and communicating the threefold sustainability impact in such a way that it takes into account the future of urban living. The illustration and the empirical insights provide several avenues for future studies including the on-going study. These together with the main limitations of the study are summarised at the end of the paper.

THE BENEFITS OF GREEN INFRASTRUCTURE PLANNING IN ADDRESSING LOST SPACES UNDERNEATH ELEVATED URBAN HIGHWAYS

Traditional planning practices, wherein attention is directed at the provision of single functions or zoning, have led to the emergence of lost spaces in cities like Kuala Lumpur. Elevated highways are a prominent contributor to the formation of these lost spaces and are seen as a hurdle in achieving a sustainable compact city. Studies suggest that green infrastructure (GI) planning, which aims to promote multifunctionality in spatial planning, is a suitable approach to address this dilemma. To identify the benefits of the GI approach in mitigating lost spaces underneath elevated highways in Kuala Lumpur City, this study utilized two methods: site observation and expert interviews. The results suggest that GI planning can achieve benefits ranging from economic aspects, such as increasing property value, to social aspects, such as promoting a healthier urban lifestyle. However, such benefits may vary as these spaces have different typologies in terms of accessibility, size, location, and surrounding context. Nonetheless, the GI approach can be seen as the key to achieving a sustainable compact city, since it supports the ability of urban spaces to provide multiple benefits concurrently. Thus, the identification of its benefits could lead to the more sustainable planning, design, and management of lost spaces.

Urban morphology, lifestyles and work-related travel behaviour: Evidence from the Stockholm region

The possibility of attaining environmental and social goals through urban and regional planning has long been the subject of research and debate. The current research investigates the precise relations between urban morphology, lifestyles, social-psychological aspects and work-related travel behaviour in terms of travel distance and travel mode. The study area is the Stockholm region. Travel distance and mode were linked to explanatory variables by linear and multinomial regression methods. Results from this study in the form of marginal effects show that urban morphology and demographics have a substantial influence on travel behaviour. However, lifestyles, attitudes and ideologies have significant influence as well. Travel distance is foremost influenced by attitude to travel distance and occupation. Travel mode is foremost influenced by distance to public transport facility and gender. Urban morphology, a designer lifestyle and ideological concerns regarding ecology matter as well. Thus, sustainable travel behaviours can be promoted by spatial planning. As other factors – attitudes, lifestyles and ideologies – also have a substantial influence, the possibilities and limitations of planning to contribute to a sustainable society should be further debated and if possible – clarified.

URBAN LAKES AND ITS ECOSYSTEM SERVICES: SIGNIFICANCE, THREATS AND CONSERVATION

Urban lakes are recognized as freshwater resources in urban areas and permanently have little water flow. It strongly supports to agricultural activities, fishery and provides water for domestic purposes. Sometimes, water is treated as a public good when it is abundantly available, but due to rapid growth of urbanization, industrialization, population, and urban lifestyle put more pressure on water bodies now water is a scarce resource. Currently, water is treated as economic good. Once, the urban lakes act as freshwater resources but presently act as wastewater recipients in urban areas. Therefore this paper discusses the importance of urban lakes and its ecosystem service, the various threats to urban lakes, and conservation methods. This paper will suggest to the Government should make a proper plan for the restoration of lakes in urban areas it will help to fulfill the water demand of people in the urban areas and after restoration Government should allocate funds for the maintenance of lakes. KEYWORDS: Urban lakes, Freshwater, Economic good, Restoration.

Cardiovascular risk factors across different levels of urbanization in Brazilian Afro-derived communities (quilombos).

The frequency of cardiovascular diseases has increased throughout the world. People of African descent have been disproportionately affected, particularly if they reside in urban settings. In this work, we evaluate risk factors associated with cardiovascular diseases (CVD) and other chronic diseases in rural and urban Afro-derived communities (quilombo) in Central Brazil. We also determine if there are associations between the frequency of CVD risk factors, sex, and proximity to urban environments. Through a cross-sectional study of participants (n=347) within three Brazilian Afro-derived communities: Kalunga (a semi-isolated rural community; n=214), Cocalinho (a non-isolated rural village; n=70), and Pé do Morro (an urban community; n=63), we collected data regarding chronic disease (i.e., CVD, diabetes, and hypertension) risk through questionnaires, anthropometrics, blood pressure, and blood samples using standard protocols. Differences between variables were tested by the Chi-square test of Pearson and Fisher's Exact Test, independent sample t-tests, analysis of variances, and Kruskal-Wallis tests (p ≤ .05). The prevalence of hypertension, overweight, obesity, and other cardiovascular risk factors were higher in the non-isolated rural and urban communities than in the semi-isolated rural community. We found significant sex differences in the distribution of the CVD risk factors, with all occurring at a higher frequency among females. Our findings indicate that Brazilian Afro-derived communities are currently going through an epidemiological transition. The urban lifestyle and its environmental factors are likely contributing to an escalation in cardio-metabolic disease risk. However, the magnitude of this transition differentially impacts the sexes, as females suffer a higher frequency of risk factors compared to males.

Attributes of parenting identities and food practices among parents in Nairobi, Kenya

Dramatic changes in daily life are leading to increased rates of obesity and non-communicable diseases (NCD) in Kenya, including among children. Parenting plays a vital role in helping children establish healthy eating habits to prevent obesity and NCDs. The objective of this study was to describe parenting identity and how attributes of parenting influence food parenting practices in an urban Kenyan context. A qualitative study design was employed with 18 participants recruited using quota sampling to include parents who were born in (n = 8) or migrated to Nairobi in the last five years (n = 10). In-depth qualitative interviews were conducted by an experienced ethnographic interviewer that inquired about parenting identity and food parenting practices. Transcripts were analyzed using thematic coding in a multi-step and emergent process. Parents described their parenting identities as an integration of tradition and personal experiences during their upbringing with the modern realities of daily life. Their own experiences with discipline, modern urban lifestyles, and social pressures were dominant influences on their identities. Parenting identities included four distinct but related attributes: good disciplinarian, trustworthy, protective, and balanced provider and nurturer. Food parenting practices were described as expressions of parenting identity and included the goals: children becoming better eaters; nourishing through food; impart joy; and bonding. The study findings illustrate the influence of modern urban lifestyles on food parenting identities and practices. Understanding emerging identities and practices in rapidly changing low- and middle-income countries (LMIC) contexts is essential for health promoting policies and programs.

Timber Structures and Prefabricated Concrete Composite Blocks as a Novel Development in Vertical Gardening

A modern, environmentally friendly urban lifestyle requires paying attention to landscaping and green areas. The scarcity of free land in cities and the high price of land require the combination of greenery with buildings—both vertically and horizontally. The developed green technology for construction brings together computer numerical control (CNC) processing of supporting structures and prefabricated solid planting blocks made of concrete composite. The timber structures are fixed together using traditional carpentry joints. The details, which will be manufactured in the factory using CNC processing at a controlled temperature and humidity corresponding to indoor conditions, can be easily assembled on the construction site. The high bending strength but good elasticity and connections of carpentry joints endow the structure with good properties in a non-controllable environment. By combining CNC-processed wooden structures with concrete technology as substrate composites, labor-intensive manual work in landscaping and gardening will be reduced in the future. The novel material-hardening substrate composite material uses only the residues as the raw materials.

Mapping the complex systems that connects the urban environment to cognitive decline in adults aged 50 years and older: a group model building study

BackgroundA supportive urban environment can prevent or delay the progress of cognitive decline. There is evidence for the existence of mechanistic pathways between the urban environment and cognitive decline, but the interrelations between these pathways are unclear. In this study, we aimed to map the mechanistic pathways by which urban environment factors affect cognitive decline in adults older than 50 years. MethodsThis group model building study was part of the Supportive environments for Physical and social Activity, healthy ageing, and CognitivE health (SPACE) project. We held a 2-day workshop with theSPACE investigators based on the Group Model Building (GMB) methodology. The workshop aimed to create a causal-loop diagram (CLD) that identifies established and potential urban environment, lifestyle, health, and physiological determinants of cognitive decline in adults older than 50 years, and the dynamic interrelations between these factors. A facilitation team guided the activities (IA-P, LG, CM, and RFH). The workshop was held online following appropriately adapted scripts. After the workshop, the modelling team reviewed the CLD to ensure that main potential causal pathways and mechanisms were captured. FindingsThe workshop ran from Dec 6–7, 2021, and 12 experts from ten different disciplines identified 83 factors and 221 connections between them. After review, the CLD presented 45 factors and 110 connections. All factors were classified in ten main domains: urban design (eg, walkability), social environment (eg, social relationships), travel behaviours (eg, active travel), by-products (eg, air pollution), lifestyle (eg, recreational physical activity), mental health (eg, stress), disease or physiology (eg, molecular risk), exogenous factors (eg, industrial pollution sources), and cognitive decline outcomes (eg, dementia). The main output was a CLD of the complex system of how the urban environment can influence cognitive decline in older adults, created by, and agreed with, the SPACE investigators. InterpretationOur findings suggested that GMB can engage experts and help them view problems, such as the determinants of cognitive decline in adults, through the lens of complex systems. FundingUK Research and Innovation.

Communication Process to Promote Public Participation in Anti-Corruption of People in Muang Chiang Mai District

This research was a mixed-method research. The objectives were to study the situation, condition, problems, and communication process in promoting participation in anti-corruption of people in Muang District, Chiang Mai Province. The result was synthesized into a body of knowledge and a guide book, which was assessed the standard as the last step. The population and data sample were 400 people in Mueang Chiang Mai District, which were randomly randomized (Accidental Sampling) from 16 sub-districts aged between 18-80 years with the validity of the sample size at +95% and the errors at +5. The three-part questionnaire was used to collect the data. The second data group was the content analysis presented in 2017 of Chiang Mai News, Thai News, Rob Wiang Chiang Mai radio program, WE TV news, and Chiang Mai Mai Kong radio program. The media content was selected with multi-stage randomization, while the data collection tool was coding sheets. The third data sample group was the interview of 21 people who were directors, editors and journalists from the local mass media, local independent media, a group of academics in mass media, law and social sciences, the leader of public sectors, the community leaders, and officers in the Chiang Mai Office of the National Anti-Corruption Commission (ONACC) and Office of Public Sector Anti-Corruption Commission (PACC). The semi-structured interview was conducted as the data collection tools. The data were analyzed for frequency, percentage, and standard deviation. The research results revealed that people in Mueang Chiang Mai District were the middle class with urban lifestyle with slight involvement with local and the lower classes which had a rural lifestyle. The middle-aged and older were groups that had highly engagement with communities. The media usage and participation behaviors of Mueang Chiang Mai District residents found that most of them use Facebook, LINE, and Instagram. They participated with liking and sharing through social media, only 10.5 percent of them had ever participated in the social movement. The results of the anti-corruption participation found that local media did not attach importance to presenting corruption news for fear of harm, while some had mutual benefits with local politicians. For the anti-corruption agencies such as the NACC and PACC emphasis, it was placed on the corruption combat training of local civil servants and officials. By this, the guideline suggested that the communication process should be divided into two groups: the middle class should use online media to communicate, and the lower-class should apply meetings, community media, and affordable online media as the tool, while the community leaders were the mainstay of communication. The anti-corruption organizations must primarily support the formation of groups with budget, knowledge, and safety. An important aspect of participation is the safety of members and whistleblowers including avoiding conflicts igniting in the community. The communication strategy must provide knowledge and consequences of corruption, the inequality that leads to corruption, protection laws, and safety.

Influences and pathways of urban form and lifestyle on carbon emission reduction

Urban areas experience high carbon emissions, impeding sustainable development, and causing global environmental changes. Low-carbon planning and lifestyle have the co-benefit of reducing carbon emissions and mediating environmental threats. However, the relationship among carbon emissions, urban form, and lifestyle remains unclear, limiting low-carbon urban and societal development. Thus, the objective of this study was to simultaneously clarify the direct and indirect influences and pathways of lifestyle (i.e., expenditures on diet, housing, transport, and entertainment) and urban form characteristics (i.e., dispersion, patch area, fragmentation, and aggregation of building patches) on carbon emissions, and identify vital factors for mitigating carbon emissions. Moreover, a partial least squares model was established and analyzed using urban-scale data from 352 townships in Taiwan, which was used at novel spatial scales. The empirical results demonstrate that maximizing the building patch area and minimizing the dispersion, fragmentation, and aggregation of building patches can reduce carbon emissions. Furthermore, minimizing expenditures on diet, housing, transport, and entertainment would have a similar effect. The findings established that proper policies for lifestyle and urban form can reduce carbon emissions and serve as useful strategies for developing low-carbon societies and cities.

Exploring the Spatio-Temporal and Behavioural Variations in Taxi Travel Based on Big Data during the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Case Study of New York City

The COVID-19 pandemic has caused severe social and economic chaos worldwide. To explore the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the travel patterns of residents, we analysed taxi trajectory data and COVID-19 pandemic data from New York City. Pearson coefficients, which were −0.7139, −0.8041, and −0.7046 during the three waves of the COVID-19, revealed a significant negative correlation between confirmed cases and taxi trips. Moran’s I was higher in drop-off areas than in pick-up areas, indicating a stronger spatial autocorrelation in drop-off areas during the study period. The hotspots of travel destinations had changed by spatial clustering, and variations in origin–destination distribution were obvious after the pandemic. Comparison of temporal and spatial dimensions before and after the pandemic revealed that strict epidemic policies directly affected travel. For instance, a week after the restrictions the taxi journeys plummeted by 95.3%, and their spatial and temporal patterns also changed. Once the anti-epidemic policy was eased or lifted, the taxi travel recovered, whereas, notably the new Omicron wave did not cause dramatic changes in taxi journeys. Despite this, travel spatial and temporal patterns did not return to pre-pandemic levels by the end of March 2022, the taxi journeys remained below half the pre-pandemic level. This study identified the profound impact of the COVID-19 outbreak on travel patterns and revealed distinct variations in behavioural responses during the pandemic and in response to subsequent policies. Strengthening targeted epidemic prevention and control measures are required to improve the balance between anti-epidemic policies and implementation efforts, that will facilitate the recovery of urban transport, work, and lifestyle of residents.

Gastrointestinal and Nutrition Tables in Latest Gastrointestinal Research in Islamic Civilization in Middle Ages

Research on Islamic civilization shows that gastrointestinal diseases are rooted in social lifestyles and are a sociological phenomenon. The science and craft of medicine evolved to such an extent that Muslim physicians presented a set of general rules in medicine, including gastroenterology, including Ibn Rushd in his book Generalities in Medicine. One of general laws of medicine in Middle Ages was about the functioning of gastrointestinal tract in relation to disease and health. In this general law, the systematic relationship between digestion and place, including village and city, time of year and days and hours of day and night, age of people, pollution and air pollution, is regulated in health table. By referring to this limit, one can choose food that is useful for maintaining health and also be safe from diseases. Spread of health is legacy of Islamic medicine in Middle Ages for world of science, which can be used even now. In this general law, occurrence of all diseases is due to digestive problems and incorrect choice of food. He considers urban lifestyle in nutrition as cause of all diseases. In Islamic medicine, there is a direct relationship between food and its type of digestion and lifestyle to maintain health. According to Ibn Khaldun, who has introduced himself as a commentator on works of Averroes who invented eight hundred years ago the “Trophology and “Ecotrophology” which developed in Europe in second half of twentieth century, was ago, Ibn Khaldun as sociologist studied issue pathology of nutrition from propht to averroes and interoduced hypotheses in nutrition about view of Islamic civilization and writes: Urban diet style is cause of disease: 1. Wrong food composition. people of city add all kinds of ingredients and condiments to food and produce dozens of indistinct forms of food and fruit that are not recognizable to human temperament. 2. Inactivity among city dwellers. 3. Stinking air and air pollution 4. Overeating and starting to eat new food before digesting t previous food Research hypothesis is presentation of a panoramic image of human nutrition knowledge of Qur’an by human maker, which is a firm image and in accordance with reality and there is a firm and definite logical relationship between gastrointestinal tract and food and health that can be plotted in a quantitative graph in Islamic civilization.

Michel Serres’s “Dream of Another Epistemology”: Provoking Somatic Encounters with the Universe

This essay explores Michel Serres’s “poetic dream of another epistemology” connected to an anti-Cartesian, sensorial view of knowledge. The philosopher alludes to empirical studies from the field of cognitive neuroscience, which have demonstrated that the mind and body are interwoven as part of one integrated entity, in order to propose an alternative epistemological framework for (re-) envisioning the nature of knowledge. The philosopher’s rehabilitation of our senses illustrates that our body is replete with overlapping epistemological channels that bifurcate in all directions. Serres explains how somatic encounters with the universe enable us to constitute a stable sense of self in relation to the larger world. However, he recognizes that there are a plethora of obstacles standing in the way of allowing his epistemological dream to come to fruition. In what he refers to as the Exo-Darwinian, hominescent era, the (post-) modern, urbanized lifestyle affords very little contact with the remainder of the planet. Moreover, Serres laments how climate change has already forever eradicated spaces of meaning that are indispensable as part of an epistemological quest of knowing what and who we are as planetary beings.

Cars in Latin America: An exploration of the urban landscape and street network correlates of motorization in 300 cities

Car use creates significant externalities for urban residents worldwide. City characteristics such as the configuration of the urban landscape and street network likely influence the use and attractiveness of automobiles, especially in rapidly urbanizing areas such as Latin America. The understanding of factors associated with motorization can inform planning measures to reduce car usage, and to promote healthier, safer, and more sustainable urban lifestyles. We harmonized official passenger vehicle data from 300 cities with >100,000 inhabitants in Brazil, Chile, Colombia, and Mexico, and we calculated urban landscape metrics from satellite imagery and street network metrics from OpenStreetMaps. Analyzed cities had an average of 273.3 cars per 1,000 residents in 2015 and showed an average car rate increase of 30 % between 2010 and 2015. We used negative binomial regression to examine the association between car rates and urban landscape and street network characteristics, and linear regression to examine the association between the same characteristics and car rate increases. Car rates in the 300 cities analyzed showed a partial positive association with development fragmentation, and a consistent positive association with urban form complexity and circuity of the street network. In addition, the increase in car rates between 2010 and 2015 showed a negative association with population density. Implementing regional policies to reduce development fragmentation, to promote compact urban forms and less circuitous street networks may help reducing motorization in Latin American cities. Special attention needs to be paid to low density areas, where the increase in vehicle rates has been more pronounced.

Rural versus urban food security in Bangladesh

ABSTRACT Within contemporary global food security discourse, the difference in food security issues between rural and urban households has received scant attention. Since urban and rural livelihoods and lifestyles are different, we hypothesized that the determinants of food security between rural and urban households could also be different. This study is one of the first attempts to thoroughly examine the difference in food security between rural and urban households in Bangladesh. Using recent field survey data from Bangladesh, and applying the binary logistic model, firstly, we find that rural households are likely to be more food secure than urban households. Secondly, this study finds that the determinants of food security vary between rural and urban households. Hence, policymakers and administrators must understand the specific community-level conditions so that they can identify which of the key variables must be addressed in the development of programmes to improve food security both in rural and urban areas.

Mapping the complex systems that connects the urban environment to cognitive decline in older adults: a group model building study

Background and aim: The number of people living with dementia and Mild Cognitive Impairment (MCI) is increasing. A supportive urban environment can prevent or delay the progress of cognitive decline. There is evidence for the existence of mechanistic pathways between the urban environment and cognitive decline, but the interrelations between these pathways are unclear. In this study, we aimed to map the mechanistic pathways by which urban environment factors impact cognitive decline in older adults. Methods: This study was part of the Supportive environments for Physical and social Activity, healthy ageing and CognitivE health (SPACE) project. A 2-day workshop with the SPACE investigators was conducted based on the Group Model Building (GMB) methodology. The workshop aimed to create a causal-loop diagram (CLD) that identifies established and potential urban environment, lifestyle, health, and physiological determinants of cognitive decline in older adults. A facilitation team guided the activities. The workshop was held online following appropriately adapted scripts. After the workshop, the modelling team reviewed the CLD to ensure that main potential causal pathways and mechanisms were captured. Results: During the workshop, 12 experts from 10 different disciplines identified 83 factors and 221 connections between them. After review, the CLD presented 50 factors and 154 connections. All factors were classified in 10 main groups: urban design, social environment, travel behaviours, urban design by-products, lifestyle, disease/physiology, mental health conditions, exogenous factors, and cognitive decline outcomes. The main output was a CLD of the complex system of how the urban environment can influence cognitive decline in older adults. Conclusions: The CLD detailed the plausible causal pathways between the urban environment and cognitive decline. Our findings suggested that GMB can engage experts and help them view problems through the lens of complex systems. Keywords: cognitive decline, urban environment, group model building

Growth and Public Health Concerns

Seventeen scientists met for this year’s conference on Auxology held at Krobielowice castle, Poland, to discuss growth and public health concerns. The regulation of growth is complex and besides metabolic and endocrine components including hypothalamic releasing factors, growth hormone and multiple downstream effectors, comprises the full spectrum of the psychosocial, economic and emotional environment including signaling dominance, competence, prestige, or subordination and indulgence, all of this being sensitive to urban or rural lifestyle, the political climate and with marked plasticity throughout history. New statistical techniques (St. Nicolas House Analysis) are presented for analyzing anthropometric variables for public health concerns. The impact of spatial differences on developmental tempo, growth in height, and the prevalence of childhood obesity are discussed as well as the impact of social mobility on obesity, and the benefits of the biopsychosocial status when getting along with socio-economic disasters and the COVID-19 pandemic.

The sidewalk ballet in the age of social distancing: interactive geospatial mapping to study NYC’s pandemic urbanism

ABSTRACT This article explores and characterizes the pandemic urbanism of NYC during the first year of COVID-19. It analyzes changes to the sidewalk and the urban lifestyle using a novel method of remote ethnography: the integrated use of Zoom video conferencing and GPS smartphone tracking to interview participants as they walked and filmed the city. The dataset, composed of transcripts, videos, and routes, was analyzed to reveal recurring themes and visualized through individual Scrollytelling maps combined into one Supermap. The findings are broken down into: 1) changes to the sidewalk, including fewer people, more outdoor sports activity, signs of social distancing, signs of closure, more bikes, and construction; and 2) lifestyle changes, including longings for the urban lifestyle, new-formed solidarity, a renewed appreciation for the local neighborhood, an undercurrent of “moving out” of the city or “moving up” to a better neighborhood, and a difference between Manhattan and the boroughs.