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The coronavirus health crisis has exposed the inefficiency of our cities in dealing with the turmoil that’s increasingly going to unsettle our world-system. The COVID-19 pandemic is simply the inevitable tip of an iceberg called climate crisis. Fortunately, the exceptional situation now being experienced in our metropolises also represents a great opportunity to set in motion a change of model that will set us on the road to real urban sustainability. For that to happen, though, city corporations should start taking decisive action as soon as possible.
In this article we present the first instalment of a series of urban strategies that could be applied to help cities handle the COVID-19 pandemic. It should be noted that the proposals included here have been vindicated by numerous environmentalists and urban planning professionals for decades. Perhaps this is the key historic moment when they can finally be put into practice.
So there you have the first five specific ideas that cities could start to work on to better adapt to the new urban scenario brought about by coronavirus. We’ll look at the other measures in this series of proposals for post-COVID-19 urban planning in the next article (Part 2).