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Megacity

Corona Diaries: In Came the Rona

December 30, 2020 by Martha Griffiths

It starts out as a distant fear in December 2019, a virus, COVID19 or something like that, is ravaging Asian countries, millions of people contacting the flu, thousands dying… then it spread to Italy… locked down Italians are playing beautiful music, you shrug and enjoy the entertainment, with tears in your eyes. Then the United […]

Corona Diaries: Dead Still Mexico City

November 13, 2020 by Martha Griffiths

Megacity Lockdown: An Introduction by Kathleen McCaul Moura Coronavirus has thrived in megacities, determined to make it in the big smoke of the world’s densest urban hubs. In was industrial Wuhan, now the most infamous megacity of them all, where tightly packed tower-bock residents first showed signs of a new lung infection. New York and London, […]

Megacity

June 15, 2020 by andrew

An extract from the introduction to Megacity, edited by Kathleen McCaul Moura and published in June 2020 by Boiler House Press   It was the megacity that taught me to hustle. In 2011 I arrived in São Paulo, pregnant, on the arm of a local who was neither rich nor poor. We needed to find some […]

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