As holiday cases surge, this article will cover Montreal, Ecatepec de Morelos, and Los Angeles to complete the set of cities introduced in the series opener.
Read MoreAlthough, of course, there is no easy recipe for policymaking, the mistakes and achievements of Adote Um Casarão might provide valuable lessons for overcoming institutional difficulties in developing areas.
Read MoreThe COVID-19 pandemic has now breached 50 million cases, and resulted in over 10 million deaths. To better understand how COVID-19 has affected urban welfare in North America, a city-by-city public service lens will focus on homelessness and tourism in the countries' most frequently visited cities: Toronto, Guadalajara, and New York City.
Read MoreRebuilding will continue into the future, but requires commitment across levels of government to ensure scorched-earth urbanism, which is responsive to Australia’s long-term wellbeing. These initial years of disaster recovery must embed resilience into communities while ensuring cities are not exacerbating the factors that led to their destruction.
Read MoreFrom the September fires to the third greatest explosion in human history, Oxford Urbanists traces the crises that have plagued ‘The Paris of the Middle East’ in the last twelve months.
Read MoreSpread over 2.4 square kilometers, Dharavi is one of the most densely-populated areas of India. With single-story and low-rise informal tenements lined along its labyrinthine bylanes, it houses over 850,000 people. So once it arrived in Dharavi, the virus instantly spun out of control.
Read More"Whether or not people have the right to have access to sanitation is one of the factors that ensures greater or lesser protection against the virus.”
Read MoreHow do we make Lagos food secure? And how do we build resilient food distribution systems in times of uncertainty?
Read MoreDuring a health crisis, not everyone has the right to stay home. This concerns not only the most essential workers (i.e. doctors, sanitary operators and supermarket assistants), but, also, all those workers who are the real producers of the city, the ones that assure its growth and functioning.
Read MoreWhat amounts to a ‘good’ coronavirus policy and timeline? Who is Andrew Cuomo, and how has his response evolved? And, ultimately, how well does his response and the underlying values match what New Yorkers need?
Read MoreThe pandemic has hit Chile at a particularly pivotal moment for the country, as it found itself immersed in a quasi-refoundational process initiated after the 18th of October (18-O) protests, when levels of social cohesion are dramatically low.
Read MoreThis is what the deserted city reveals to us, uninhabited in its streets and squares, where no open space belongs to us anymore: to satisfy always and only the private means to confine everyone to their own positions and origins; to give oxygen to the public, to the open space, the means in which we learn to meet others.
Read MoreThe ‘Clean India Mission’ turned five this last October, and notable successes have been made. But what does ‘progress’ mean in the COVID-19 pandemic? In this article, two case studies — Kolkata and Delhi — will demonstrate how the module works, and what it could mean to fight the viral outbreak.
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