The unique challenges of the pandemic changed the way community organisations work. Organisations that worked in silos during other emergencies bundled their expertise and resources.
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If we learn from COVID-19, there are three key areas to tackle to make cities safer from outbreaks of future infectious diseases.
The life story of Mandlenkosi Makhoba represents the losers in the new South Africa, showing how inequality is produced and reproduced generationally.
Glaring capacity gaps aside, the failure to curb COVID-19 is not so much due to a lack of technical know-how but to a particular view of the world.
Besides battling the coronavirus pandemic, San Roque residents have long been locked in a bigger struggle for their very survival as a community in the face of home demolitions and relocations.
COVID-19 is spreading fast through not only the world’s richest cities but also its poorest, ravaging slum areas where risk factors like overcrowding and poverty accelerate disease transmission.
Many are speculating about the pandemic changing how we plan and use our cities. What they overlook is how many people live in unplanned settlements where it’s more likely to be business as usual.
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Associate Professor of Urban Planning, The University of Melbourne
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Professor of Architecture and Urban Design, The University of Melbourne
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Distinguished Reserach Professor, Southern Centre for Inequality Studies, University of the Witwatersrand
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Professor of Political Studies, University of Johannesburg
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Professor and Inaugural Judith Neilson Chair in Architecture, UNSW Sydney
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Research fellow, University of Southern Queensland
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Lecturer, Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio)
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Associate Professor in Sociology, University of Zululand
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Research Fellow – Informal Urbanism (InfUr-) Hub, The University of Melbourne
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Professor, University of Toronto
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Research Coordinator iALARM study, University of Cape Town
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Senior Lecturer, The University of Melbourne
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Assistant professor, University of Notre Dame
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Associate Professor, University of Cape Town
