IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/bla/tvecsg/v111y2020i3p513-529.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Urban‐Rural Polarisation in Times of the Corona Outbreak? The Early Demographic and Geographic Patterns of the SARS‐CoV‐2 Epidemic in the Netherlands

Author

Listed:
  • Willem R. Boterman

Abstract

The global health crisis due to the pandemic of the SARS‐CoV‐2 is associated with processes of urbanisation and globalisation. Globally well‐connected areas with high population densities are hence expected to be disproportionately affected by COVID‐19. This paper investigates the role of population density within the Netherlands, comparing hospitalisation and mortality related to COVID‐19 across municipalities. The paper finds that infections, hospitalisation and mortality related to COVID‐19 are not clearly correlated with the population density or urbanity of the municipality, also when controlling for age and public health factors. The paper concludes that while the public debate stresses the elevated risk of infections in cities, due to transgressive behaviour, the evidence in this paper suggests that the geography of the epidemic in the Netherlands is more complex. It speculates that the variation in urbanisation in most of the country might just be too small to expect significant differences.

Suggested Citation

  • Willem R. Boterman, 2020. "Urban‐Rural Polarisation in Times of the Corona Outbreak? The Early Demographic and Geographic Patterns of the SARS‐CoV‐2 Epidemic in the Netherlands," Tijdschrift voor Economische en Sociale Geografie, Royal Dutch Geographical Society KNAG, vol. 111(3), pages 513-529, July.
    • Handle: RePEc:bla:tvecsg:v:111:y:2020:i:3:p:513-529
    DOI: 10.1111/tesg.12437
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: https://doi.org/10.1111/tesg.12437
    Download Restriction: no
    File URL: https://libkey.io/10.1111/tesg.12437?utm_source=ideas
    LibKey link: if access is restricted and if your library uses this service, LibKey will redirect you to where you can use your library subscription to access this item
    ---><---

    References listed on IDEAS

    as
    1. Meike Wolf, 2016. "Rethinking Urban Epidemiology: Natures, Networks and Materialities," International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 40(5), pages 958-982, September.
    2. Michael Storper & Allen J Scott, 2016. "Current debates in urban theory: A critical assessment," Urban Studies, Urban Studies Journal Limited, vol. 53(6), pages 1114-1136, May.
    Full references (including those not matched with items on IDEAS)

    Citations

    Citations are extracted by the CitEc Project, subscribe to its RSS feed for this item.
    as


    Cited by:

    1. Olivera Lekić Glavan & Nenad Nikolić & Branislav Folić & Biljana Vitošević & Aleksandra Mitrović & Saja Kosanović, 2022. "COVID-19 and City Space: Impact and Perspectives," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 14(3), pages 1-19, February.
    2. Antonescu, Daniela, 2022. "Aspecte relevante privind piața forței de muncă în contextul coeziunii teritoriale Post-Covid [Relevant aspects regarding labour force market in the context of post-COVID territorial cohesion]," MPRA Paper 112294, University Library of Munich, Germany.
    3. Daniela ANTONESCU, 2022. "Relevant Aspects Regarding Labor Force Market In The Context Of Post-Covid-19 And The Territorial Cohesion," Romanian Journal of Economics, Institute of National Economy, vol. 54(1(63)), pages 5-23, June.
    4. Bumjoon Kang & Jaewoong Won & Eun Jung Kim, 2021. "COVID-19 Impact on Residential Preferences in the Early-Stage Outbreak in South Korea," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 18(21), pages 1-14, October.

    Most related items

    These are the items that most often cite the same works as this one and are cited by the same works as this one.
    1. Kevin Ward & Timothy Bunnell, 2021. "Reflections on five years of the Summer Institute in Urban Studies," Urban Studies, Urban Studies Journal Limited, vol. 58(4), pages 863-878, March.
    2. Matthew Gandy, 2023. "Zoonotic urbanisation: multispecies urbanism and the rescaling of urban epidemiology," Urban Studies, Urban Studies Journal Limited, vol. 60(13), pages 2529-2549, October.
    3. Alessandra de Renzis & Alessandra Faggian & Giulia Urso, 2022. "Distant but Vibrant Places. Local Determinants of Adaptability to Peripherality," Tijdschrift voor Economische en Sociale Geografie, Royal Dutch Geographical Society KNAG, vol. 113(5), pages 483-501, December.
    4. Chich-Ping Hu, 2022. "The COVID-19 Epidemic Spreading Effects," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 14(15), pages 1-11, August.
    5. Yael Allweil, 2018. "The tent: The uncanny architecture of agonism for Israel–Palestine, 1910–2011," Urban Studies, Urban Studies Journal Limited, vol. 55(2), pages 316-331, February.
    6. Fulong Wu, 2018. "Planning centrality, market instruments: Governing Chinese urban transformation under state entrepreneurialism," Urban Studies, Urban Studies Journal Limited, vol. 55(7), pages 1383-1399, May.
    7. Colin Marx & Emily Kelling, 2019. "Knowing urban informalities," Urban Studies, Urban Studies Journal Limited, vol. 56(3), pages 494-509, February.
    8. Franciszek Chwałczyk, 2020. "Around the Anthropocene in Eighty Names—Considering the Urbanocene Proposition," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 12(11), pages 1-33, May.
    9. Francesca Froy, 2023. "Learning from architectural theory about how cities work as complex and evolving spatial systems," Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society, Cambridge Political Economy Society, vol. 16(3), pages 495-510.
    10. Chihsin Chiu, 2020. "Theorizing Public Participation and Local Governance in Urban Resilience: Reflections on the “Provincializing Urban Political Ecology” Thesis," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 12(24), pages 1-12, December.
    11. Matthew Gandy, 2022. "THE ZOONOTIC CITY: Urban Political Ecology and the Pandemic Imaginary," International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 46(2), pages 202-219, March.
    12. Nida Rehman & Aparna Parikh & Zachary Lamb & Shruti Syal & D. Asher Ghertner & SiddhaRth Menon & Nausheen Anwar & Hira Nabi & Waqas Butt & Malini Ranganathan & Krithika Srinivasan & Harshavardhan Bhat, 2023. "SOUTH ASIAN URBAN CLIMATES: Towards Pluralistic Narratives and Expanded Lexicons," International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 47(4), pages 667-687, July.
    13. Mike Hodson & Andy Lockhart & Andrew McMeekin, 2024. "How have digital mobility platforms responded to COVID-19 and why does this matter for ‘the urban’?," Urban Studies, Urban Studies Journal Limited, vol. 61(5), pages 923-942, April.
    14. Heather Dorries, 2023. "INDIGENOUS URBANISM AS AN ANALYTIC: Towards Indigenous Urban Theory," International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 47(1), pages 110-118, January.
    15. Radu Săgeată & Bianca Mitrică & Andreea-Loreta Cercleux & Ines Grigorescu & Tamás Hardi, 2023. "Deindustrialization, Tertiarization and Suburbanization in Central and Eastern Europe. Lessons Learned from Bucharest City, Romania," Land, MDPI, vol. 12(9), pages 1-17, September.
    16. Christof Parnreiter, 2022. "The Janus-faced genius of cities," Urban Studies, Urban Studies Journal Limited, vol. 59(7), pages 1315-1333, May.
    17. Mary Lawhon & Yaffa Truelove, 2020. "Disambiguating the southern urban critique: Propositions, pathways and possibilities for a more global urban studies," Urban Studies, Urban Studies Journal Limited, vol. 57(1), pages 3-20, January.
    18. Huan Zhang & Adam Grydehøj, 2021. "Locating the interstitial island: Integration of Zhoushan Archipelago into the Yangtze River Delta urban agglomeration," Urban Studies, Urban Studies Journal Limited, vol. 58(10), pages 2157-2173, August.
    19. Allen J. Scott, 2019. "City-regions reconsidered," Environment and Planning A, , vol. 51(3), pages 554-580, May.
    20. Hung-Ying Chen & Colin McFarlane & Priyam Tripathy, 2024. "Density and pandemic urbanism: Exposure and networked density in Manila and Taipei," Urban Studies, Urban Studies Journal Limited, vol. 61(8), pages 1526-1544, June.

    More about this item

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:bla:tvecsg:v:111:y:2020:i:3:p:513-529. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    If CitEc recognized a bibliographic reference but did not link an item in RePEc to it, you can help with this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Wiley Content Delivery (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.blackwellpublishing.com/journal.asp?ref=0040-747X .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.