Coping and Connecting through Creativity in the Neighborhood Realm during COVID-19

This research addresses how the COVID-19 pandemic affected neighborhood engagement by exploring the use of streets, sidewalks, and driveways as sociable spaces for informal and uncoordinated creative expression. The authors assessed practices occurring in three diverse City of Phoenix neighborhoods before and during the pandemic through visual analysis. They show that residents used these spaces in novel and more intensive ways during the pandemic, including for self-care and care of others, celebrations, children’s play, and property-spanning games and communication. These findings reveal the importance of these interstitial spaces in helping neighbors to cope and connect during societal disruptions.

• Record URL:
  • https://doi.org/10.1177/0739456X221125443
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• Supplemental Notes:
  • © The Authors 2022.
• Authors:
  • Pfeiffer, Deirdre
  • 0000-0003-2786-2375
  • Ehlenz, Meagan
  • Saadaoui, Rababe
• Publication Date: 2024-9

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Digital/other
• Features: Photos; References; Tables;
• Pagination: pp 1852-1864
• Serial:
  • Journal of Planning Education and Research
  • Volume: 44
  • Issue Number: 3
  • Publisher: Sage Publications, Incorporated
  • ISSN: 0739-456X
  • EISSN: 1552-6577
  • Serial URL: http://jpe.sagepub.com/

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Before and after studies; COVID-19; Neighborhoods; Public participation; Residents; Social factors
• Geographic Terms: Phoenix (Arizona)
• Subject Areas: Highways; Society;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01933087
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Oct 9 2024 3:17PM