15 Years of Researching Cities and Pandemics

S. Harris Ali & Creighton Connolly & Roger Keil — 2021-02-09T06:00:00Z

Beginning in 2006 with pioneering work on responses to the SARS crisis in global cities (and in particular Toronto, Hong Kong and Singapore) and expanding their work recently in the context of Covid‑19 and its link to suburbanization, S. Harris Ali, Roger Keil and Creighton Connolly have been working on metropolises and pandemics for the past 15 years. Their analyses help us to understand the current Covid‑19 crisis in its urban dimensions.
Interview by Sophie Didier.
Globalization, viruses

- Interviews / Singapore, Covid-19, coronavirus, Hong Kong, Toronto, health

Vancouverism: hybridisation and spread of an urban model

Nicolas Douay & translated by Oliver Waine — 2015-06-12T04:50:00Z

The transformation that downtown Vancouver has undergone – which has since become a reference, known as “Vancouverism” – has involved building residential towers and creating public spaces that pay visual attention to their surroundings. Nicolas Douay looks into the origins of these transformations and the ways in which this new urban model has been disseminated.
---- Series: The Renewed Relevance of Urban-Planning Models? In a context of metropolisation, cities create images, values and

- From the Field / architecture, urban planning, real estate, Canada, downtown, city centre, dissemination of urban references, model, Vancouver, Hong Kong

Metropolitics

15 Years of Researching Cities and Pandemics

Vancouverism: hybridisation and spread of an urban model