MONU 33 Pandemic Urbanism

MONU 33 Pandemic Urbanism

There is much to discuss regarding what kinds of changes and shifts the coronavirus pandemic might bring to cities. Some of these could be spatial, subtle changes triggered by social distancing, confinement, and lockdown measures, and others might be articulated in new modes of social interaction and domestic activities. There will certainly be long-term effects on politics, socioeconomics, culture, and the environment. This issue of ‘MONU’ addresses what effects pandemics have on cities, both today and in the past, and analyses their urban impact, yet also looks for new ideas and approaches that improve our dealings with the current situation in these strange times.

Content

Quarantines and Paranoia – Interview with Beatriz Colomina by Bernd Upmeyer

On Constructing a Semana Santa by Ana Morcillo Pallares

Here Not There Urbanism by Jessica Bridger

Lockdown London: Tale of the Tape by Peter Dench

Grasping for (Fresh) Air: Exposing the Inherent Conflict of Public Interiors by Dalia Munenzon and Yair Titelboim

Balco(n)vid-19: How the Pandemic Can Be Hacked by Michaela Litsardaki

New Top City by Eventually Made (Sebastian Bernardy and Vincent Meyer Madaus)

Pestilential Cities – Cities as Spheres for Pathogens, Epidemics and Wellbeing by Ian Nazareth, Conrad Hamann and Rosemary Heyworth

The Great Emptiness by Carmelo Ignaccolo and Ayan Meer

Eternal Silence by Nadia Shira Cohen

Isolation and Inequality – Interview with Richard Sennett by Bernd Upmeyer

Transformation Towards Community Resilience: New Urban Visions by Jan Fransen and Daniela Ochoa Peralta

Drivers of Change for the ”New” in the ”Normal” by Alexander Jachnow

Real Estate Art in the Age of Pandemic by Kuba Snopek

Bringing about the Adaptive Street by Joshua Yates and Janna Hohn

Can the Pandemic Situation Generate Walkable Cities? By Leticia Sabino and Louise Uchôa (SampePé)

The Total House During and After Coronavirus: A Virtual Place and More by Anna Rita Emili (altro studio)

Medial Territories by Michele Cerruti But

Augmented Domesticities – The Rise of a Non-Typological Architecture by Pedro Pitarch