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...IGLUS is calling new contributors for the IGLUSblog!
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