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 […]
Megacity
Corona Diaries: Dead Still Mexico City
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
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 […]
