Abitazione e Città Latinoamericane, in tempi di Covid-19

Abstract

On March 16th 2020 the Preventive Voluntary Social Isolation decree was issued due to the outbreak of COVID-19 virus, which keeps the entire world population in a state of alert and worry. A week later, the decree became Mandatory Isolation, bringing about a series of restrictions that have caused a profound impact on our lifestyles, habits and customs. It is clear that we are in a process of transformation: unlike catastrophes, understood as defined events in time and space, the CODIV-19 pandemic presents us with a temporal uncertainty, yet it crosses all geographical boundaries, affecting all spaces, even the most intimate ones, such as the mental and spiritual realms. People are notably suffering the immediate consequences of this phenomenon, here and now, both individually, and collectively in our society. This new reality poses the challenging task on us, intellectuals, and architecture and urbanism teachers, to question and reflect upon two issues that belong to our field: housing and the city.