If cities are where the future happens first, then the future came early to Bogota

Maps are not just informative, they are empowering

Cities around the world are getting smarter.

Last year, Ian Goldin of the University of Oxford and Robert Muggah, a Brazil-based policy analyst, also released Terra Incognita: 100 Maps to Survive the Next Hundred Years

Robert Muggah contributed to this report that aims to campaign to halve violence by 2030 with cities around the world.

Bolsonaro’s administration is largely responsible for all of this chaos, which has killed 270,000 Brazilians.

When Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro repeatedly downplayed the threat of COVID-19, Brazilians were understandably confused about the gravity of the pandemic.

The COVID-19 pandemic could give rise to positive innovations in cities and a radical intolerance of the status quo

Cities are the crucible of our civilisations

This is the startling observation made by authors Ian Goldin and Robert Muggah in the introduction to their fascinating new book, Terra Incognita

Maps are not just informative, they are empowering. They can help provide a new perspective to age-old problems

Around the world, responses to the first and second waves of the COVID-19 pandemic are understandably focused on reducing infections and fatalities.

The COVID-19 pandemic is a profoundly urban crisis. The vast majority of the millions of reported cases worldwide are concentrated in overcrowded neighbourhoods and informal settlements.

One of the first countries to register a Covid-19 outbreak, South Korea, flattened the curve in stunning fashion. It registered over 22,000 cases, yet fewer than 400 deaths at the time of writing.

We can give people a better sense of what’s happening around them at a time of extreme confusion and a motivation to act. Because ultimately, the future is what we make it, says ‘Terra Incognita’ co-author Dr Robert Muggah.