COVID-19, Siena — June 9, 2021 [COVID-19 🇮🇹] Challenges, responses and solidarity in Siena As COVID-19 tore across Europe and the world it struck at the heart of our societies, taking lives and revealing in a harsher, more uncompromising light the extent of social, economic, and environmental disparities within our communities. In some sense, the pandemic spread indiscriminately. Yet, it is clear that factors such as income level, housing type, neighborhood, and other socioeconomic variables would (once again..) determine starkly different levels of exposure or risk. Individuals, families, and communities have not suffered the effects of the pandemic in the same way. But what does this really mean? How have people coped with the restrictions imposed by COVID-19 mitigation policies? What lessons can we draw from this period?
COVID-19, Brussels, Høje-Taastrup, Khorramabad, Nantes, Nova Gorica, Porto, Shenyang, Siena, Sofia — April 2, 2020 [Covid-19 🇪🇺] Increased and new challenges for URBiNAT: the crisis of the inclusive public space in times of pandemic
