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Care for the Polis: Cities, Health, and the Humanities

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PUBLIC INITIATIVES ON CARE AND THE PUBLICS

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SYNAPSIS

Synapsis: A Health Humanities Journal develops conversations among diverse people thinking about medical and humanistic ways of knowing.

Their special edition on COVID-19 can be found at https://medicalhealthhumanities.com/

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CONTAGIOUS CITIES

Contagious Cities New York is part of a major international cultural project exploring the outcomes of this cohabitation, and the fascinating relationship between microbes, migration and the metropolis.

Visit Contagious Cities at the Museum of the City of New York

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POWER: #GREENSTIMULUS AND BEYOND

To assist scholars, students, and activists in tracking discussions surrounding comprehensive, society-wide response to the climate crisis, the Buell Center is compiling a working resource that builds on recent calls for a progressive #GreenStimulus in the United States.

#GreenStimulus and Beyond: A Resource can be read at power.buellcenter.columbia.edu/

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ANTI-EVICTION MAPPING PROJECT

The Anti-Eviction Mapping Project is a data-visualization, data analysis, and storytelling collective documenting the dispossession and resistance upon gentrifying landscapes.

The project is mapping where United States officials have passed (or tenants are working to pass) emergency tenant protections during the COVID-19 crisis, and where organized rent strikes are currently occurring or may be occurring.

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HUMANITIES NEW YORK

The mission of Humanities New York is to strengthen civil society and the bonds of community. The couch conversations unite people from across New York State to discuss how communities can endure — and in some aspects be strengthened — during this frightening period of our history.

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SOCIAL TEXT: RADICAL CARE

Social Text covers a broad spectrum of social and cultural phenomena, applying the latest interpretive methods to the world at large. Read the special issue on Radical Care.

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MoMA'S READINGS ON DESIGN AND COVID

MoMA’s Department of Architecture and Design has assembled a trove of essential reading on how the current global crisis affects all aspects of our daily lives—from the clothes we wear to the cities we live in to the offices we may never return to—and how we might begin to design our future.

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CONVERSATIONS ON THE CITY 2020

Attend Conversations on the City 2020 a series of live virtual conversations about the enduring value of cities at a moment of uncertainty about the future of urban life.

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CANADIAN CENTRE FOR ARCHITECTURE

Read Imperfect Health: The Medicalization of Architecture and Take Care: Demedicalize Architecture, published by the Canadian Centre for Architecture as part of a series of exhibitions held between 2012 and 2016 to explore how built environments can both make us sick but also, possibly, cure and care for our bodies.