A Pandemic in the Design City: Montreal During a Quiet Time

Guillaume Sirois

June 14, 2021<June 14, 2021

A Pandemic in the Design City: Montreal During a Quiet Time

Guillaume Sirois

The COVID-19 pandemic has interrupted Montreal’s efforts to become a “design city.” Guillaume Sirois scrutinizes the city’s urban design policies and examines the impact of lockdown on its design boutiques and flagship public spaces.

June 14, 2021<June 14, 2021

Streets for People of Las Vegas

Susanna Phillips Newbury

Susanna Phillips Newbury looks at zoning, urban development, and gentrification in Las Vegas before and during the pandemic, critiquing the city government’s claims to make “Streets for People.”

August 24, 2020<August 27, 2020

COVID Nights

Will Straw

Will Straw analyzes nocturnal videos that reveal the scale of night-time cultures happening during the COVID-19 lockdown and the role of the pandemic in highlighting ongoing policy debates about urban lighting, urban noise, and spectacle.

August 20, 2020<August 27, 2020

Robotic Logics of Public Space in the COVID Pandemic

Shanti Sumartojo et al

A group of interdisciplinary researchers from Monash University examines urban robotics as an emerging possibility for the colonization of public space due to the absence of humans in the lockdown city.

August 17, 2020<August 27, 2020

Mobilizing Inter-Mediacies: Reflections on Urban Scenographies in (Post-)Lockdown Cities

Nanna Verhoeff & Sigrid Merx

Sigrid Merx and Nanna Verhoeff examine scenographic figurations of urban space in the physically distanced city to help us understand how protests and the pandemic have provoked questions and answers about how and for what public space can be used and by whom.

August 14, 2020<August 27, 2020

Media and the Physically Distanced City

Dave Colangelo & Zach Melzer

In their introductory essay, dossier editors Dave Colangelo and Zach Melzer examine how the pandemic and BLM protests offer a lens into the makeup, visuality, and legibility of urban environments and their relationship with various forms of media.

June 16, 2020<January 22, 2023

The Silent Hecatomb: Pandemic in Rio’s Favelas

Luís Costa

Luís Costa discusses the impact of the coronavirus pandemic on residents of the favelas in Rio's divided city.

June 16, 2020<January 22, 2023

Copying and COVID-19 in Havana, Cuba

Laura-Zoë Humphreys

In the first of our global reports on COVID-19, Laura-Zoë Humphreys shows how the disruption of person-to-person media distribution networks has affected urban sociality in Havana, Cuba.