CIDOB Barcelona Centre for International Affairs

Managing a global pandemic. Towards more sustainable and resilient urban futures

Agustí Fernández de Losada, Senior Research Fellow and Director, Global Cities Programme, CIDOB

First in the Western world: Milan goes from boom-town to emergency hot-spot

Andrea Tobia Zevi, Associate Research Fellow, Global Cities Desk, ISPI

Barcelona’s CoronavirusMakers: Co-producing local solutions to a global pandemic

Hannah Abdullah, Research Fellow, Global Cities Programme, CIDOB & Jordi Reynés Garcés, Directors, Ateneus de Fabricació, Barcelona City Council

Berlin: Pragmatic solidarity to face COVID-19

Doris Knoblauch, Senior Fellow and Coordinator of Urban and Spatial Governance, Ecologic Institute

London and COVID-19: Too complex for one government?

Philipp Rode, Executive Director, LSE Cities and Associate Professorial Research Fellow, London School of Economics and Political Science

Vienna’s human rights approach to the coronavirus crisis

Shams Asadi, Human Rights Commissioner of the City of Vienna

Zurich’s COVID-19 response: A national response orchestrated by a federal government

Sabina Uffer, Project Manager, RZU - Planungsdachverband Region Zürich und Umgebung (Greater Zurich Planning Association)

San Francisco Bay Area: Everything must change

Ian Klaus, Senior Fellow for Global Cities, The Chicago Council on Global Affairs

Shut down or adapt? Pandemic-era infrastructure in a divided Chicago

Samuel Kling, ACLS Public Fellow and Global Cities Fellow, The Chicago Council on Global Affairs

Can COVID accelerate the metropolitan unity of Greater Buenos Aires?

Gabriel Lanfranchi, Managing Director, Environmental Urban Plan, City of Buenos Aires and Director of the Postgraduate Programme on Metropolitan Urbanism, University of Buenos Aires

COVID-19 in Cape Town: Initial state and civil society responses

Susan Parnell, Professor of Human Geography, University of Cape Town and University of Bristol & Cara Mazetti Claassen, PhD candidate in Human Geography, University of Bristol

From crisis to crisis? Melbourne in the midst of COVID-19

Michele Acuto, Director, Connected Cities Lab, University of Melbourne

Hong-Kong’s head start in tackling the new coronavirus

Mee Kam Ng, Director of the Urban Studies Programme and Vice-chairman of the Department of Geography and Resource Management, Chinese University of Hong Kong

COVID-19: A mirror for the urban world’s contradictions

Octavi de la Varga Mas, Secretary General of Metropolis

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