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Cities are going to be reshaped by the coronavirus pandemic, which has closed public parks, decreased traffic and put pressures on housing. (Nathan Shurr/Unsplash)

April 28, 2020

What cities can learn from lockdown about planning for life after the coronavirus pandemic

Jill L Grant, Dalhousie University

Cities can learn from past pandemics to see how communities and lifestyles are shaped by outbreaks.

Lagos was affected positively and negatively by Nigeria’s emergence as a crude oil producer in the 1970s. Shutterstock

October 1, 2019

Lagos’s chequered history: how it came to be the megacity it is today

Ndubisi Onwuanyi, University of Benin

The foundations of orderliness for any city are planning and management. Lagos had this in place in the early days.

Look both ways! Public education was the only thing policy makers did to help the rising number of pedestrians killed by cars. Staged image from Ontario Safety League 1923 safety campaign. City of Toronto Archives

August 13, 2018

Death by street – Toronto’s ongoing problems with the automobile

Phillip Gordon Mackintosh, Brock University

Torontonians have been experiencing pedestrian and bicyclist fatalities since the advent of the automobile. The one way to stop the deaths is to ban cars but since that won’t happen, what can be done?

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