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22.03.2020

The Covid-19 pandemic from an urban planning perspective

"Digital infrastructure might be the sanitation of our time."

Copyright: SeongJoon Cho/Bloomberg

From an urban planning perspective, epidemics historically have always left their traces in our cities. Now COVID-19 joins a long list of infectious diseases - such as the Spanish flu of 1918 in New York and Mexico City or the Ebola epidemic in West Africa in 2014.

CityLab has talked to Michele Acuto, Professor of Global Urban Politics at the University of Melbourne, about the intersections of urban planning and public health in the age of digitalization and globalization.

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Ian Klaus


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