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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?

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COVID-19, Brussels — June 4, 2021

[COVID-19 🇧🇪] Challenges, responses and solidarity in Brussels

We are increasingly aware of how the global COVID-19 pandemic crisis unveiled pre-existing unequal conditions, and how it affected individuals, families and communities in significantly different ways depending on their place and socioeconomic conditions. But what does this really mean? How did the people cope with the impacts imposed by COVID-19 mitigation policies? What lessons can we draw from this period?

Seven URBiNAT cities - Sofia, Nantes, Porto, Brussels, Siena, Høje-Taastrup and Nova Gorica - give us a picture of some aspects related to the repercussions, challenges, responses and alternatives that emerged with the pandemic. In this series of seven posts, we share the main measures implemented by local municipalities, and some stories that can inspire alternative and cooperative ways to live together (in) the city.