“…They posit that what remains are forms of persistent sensory power that have significant potential and actual implications for specific communities and locations and suggest there is need to question this "new normal" and our relationship with surveillance practices. Among the current-but not final-set of offerings on legacies and anticipatory geographies of COVID-19 driven by associate editor, Clare Mouat, the last article for this issue is by Działek et al (2024). Their work on "pandemic disorientations and reorientations as legacies" is an immensely useful scoping review of the impacts of the virus on European cities.…”