Urban co-authorship and quarantine: person-city relations in the new coronavirus pandemic

Abstract

Empty and not so empty cities. People isolate themselves, others continue to explore the city because they need it or because they do not fear/believe in the danger. The Covid-19 pandemic has changed part of the world and this paper investigates new perspectives of the concept of urban co-authorship (Rocha, 2019) in the face of the crisis. These perspectives, guided by changes in citizens' relations with the city, also cross the latency of social and racial inequalities, generating responses from people. Thus, we seek to understand how urban appropriations operated and were organized during social isolation and at the reopening, as well as the perspectives for the post-pandemic period, still in a generic way. This paper is supported by authors such as Lefebvre (2008) and Foucault (1987), among others, by the observation of daily life and by interviews.