Will COVID-19 change how cities are designed? Michele Acuto of the Connected Cities Lab talks about density, urbanization and pandemic preparation.  

The very thing that has made cities vulnerable in a pandemic has protected them in other disasters.

It is no great leap to see contagion as the new city-voiding dread

The physical effects of the outbreak lie in the future, but the psychic toll is already huge—and wide-ranging.

Social distancing is here to stay for much more than a few weeks. It will upend our way of life, in some ways forever.

The financial crisis of 2008 failed to provoke a fundamental shift in global capitalism. Will this moment be different? asks political economist William Davies

There is a certain beauty in the expanses of public space, now vacant amid the pandemic, these photos from around the world show. There is also a reminder: True beauty comes when the builders roam...

Pandemics have always shaped cities – and from increased surveillance to ‘de-densification’ to new community activism, Covid-19 is doing it already

What it’s like to run through a locked-down city — and why getting out there now means so much more

New York is more crowded than any large city in the country. That helps explain why it is the U.S. epicenter of the outbreak.