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Reinventing cities in post COVID-19 era: Austin
In the midst of a pandemic and against all odds, the city of Austin, Texas’ state capital, has decided to move forward with a +$7.1bn public transportation plan[1]. The “Project Connect” had long been discussed at the City Council but in last summer 2020, Austinites...
Bihar, in a State of Messy Urbanization- Way Forward
http://manojkpexpert.blogspot.in/Urbanization is an old age process that has been taking place since centuries but modern urbanization has become a more complex socio-economic process. It is not only the shifting of population from rural areas to urban but it also...
Kampala: The First Port of Call during the COVID-19 Pandemic in Uganda
While a large part of the world’s population had already been placed under lockdown, 2019's novel Coronavirus had a late arrival on the African continent. Since the first confirmed case on the continent in February 2020, South Africa and Egypt have been hotspots for...
COVID-19 – Municipalities leadership in a metropolitan context: containment approaches in Rio de Janeiro and Niteroi municipalities
Introduction Cause to the expected deepest world recession since World War Two[1], the COVID-19 (the outbreak caused by Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-COV-2)) pandemic has had a detrimental effect on global healthcare systems with a ripple...
Ecuador: One of the most hit country by COVID-19 in Latin America, overview and analyzing the cases of Quito and Guayaquil
In recent months, Ecuador has been in the “eye of the storm” due to the dealing of the health emergency caused by the COVID-19 pandemic and its consequences in the social and economic areas in the short and long term. However, to begin with, it is important to...
The Shutdowns: Responses from U.S. Cities
Beginning with President Trump’s order to limit travel from China on January 31, 2020, and the subsequent orders to restrict travel to the United States from new “hot spots” in Europe and Brazil, government officials across the U.S. have taken unprecedented steps to...
Reinventing cities in a post Covid-19 era: France
France has been one of the most affected countries in Europe by the COVID-19 pandemic, with 162,936 confirmed cases, including 29,778 deaths, and 75,649 patients cured[1]. Several weeks elapsed between the detection of the first cases at the end of January 2020 and...
Reinventing cities in post-COVID-19 era: Spain
Spanish governance model The current political system in Spain is based on the 1978 Spanish Constitution. Below the national level, we have three more tiers of government–regional autonomous communities, local provinces, and municipalities. [i] Spain is made up of 17...
Reinventing cities in post-COVID-19 era: Italy
Italian territory and governance of the healthcare system from the central government to the regions The Italian territory is divided in 20 regions. Those public entities are autonomous from the geographical, political, and administrative point of views. Each region...
Reinventing cities in a post-COVID-19 era: Switzerland
Switzerland, confederation of 41 285 km2, with a population of approximately 8.5 million and a slow population growth. The country is bordered by France, Italy, Germany, Austria and Lichtenstein and is landlocked. It is composed of 26 cantons, and renowned for...
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