Digital platforms and socio-spatial justice in the (post-)pandemic city: Introduction to the special issue

The Special Issue wishes to contribute to the burgeoning literature on the new urban geographies produced through and by the digital, focusing on how platforms reproduce or alter socio-spatial hierarchies and inequalities, and entangle categories of identity, race, gender, class, and location, particularly in light of the consequences of the Covid-19 and the changing organization of cities and urban life in the (post-)pandemic scenario. The aim is to explore how the ownership, management and use of digital (hard and soft) infrastructures interact with the physical, economic, and social life of the city, and what the outcomes are in terms of distributive and spatial justice.