What the Pandemic Has Taught Us About Transforming Cities

Álvaro Cuéllar Jaramillo, Essay, Middle Density, Territory and mobility, Urban Paradigms

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Originally published in The Conversation España.
This article has been written in collaboration with architect Anna Gutiérrez Merín, from Under Project Lab.

Translated by Jennifer Ellen Drinkwater.

In the face of debilitated environmental health, worsened by the spiralling climate crisis and an unsettling production, energy and consumption system, the current health crisis adds another strike to this growing tally.