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No. 97-Supplemento (2021): Fragile territories and Pandemic

Urban fragility and mobility patterns; facing Covid in Sub-Saharan Africa

  • Anna Mazzolini
  • Valeria Fedeli
  • Grazia Concilio
DOI
https://doi.org/10.3280/tr2021-097-Supplementooa12928
Submitted
novembre 18, 2021
Published
2022-02-03

Abstract

Some urban environments require permanent and flexible mobility of goods and people as a condition to allow the urban life itself, the participation in society and the basic sustenance. Threatened by the pandemics, such environments face challenges that cannot be analyzed through Western-based cognitive paradigms.
The article discusses urban fragilities in Sub-Saharan Africa in the light of Covid prevention measures by analyzing mobility patterns in Maputo as fundamental drivers for the city’s spatial co-production.
Epistemologically redefining the concepts of urban and mobility, the article proposes strategies of analysis and of capillary observation that clearly need the careful development of a data governance ecosystem.

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