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Journal of Urban Design and Mental Health; 2029:6;15
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CURATING COVERS

The COVID City Edition

The Journal of Urban Design and Mental Health covers are curated by Erin Sharp-Newton, a UD/MH Fellow and Design Leader.  Erin is recognized for her advocacy efforts using design to support social design and mental health.  Her accompanying poem conceptualizes the impact of COVID and the ideas within the COVID City cover design.
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COVID CITY​

Unlike any other unlikeable moment,
Restless inhabitants,
Banished to seclusion.
Aerials looking down at empty cities.
No people on the streets, establishments unoccupied.

Designing solutions for living with a pandemic,
East to West, North to South,
Six feet of separation.
Isolated in countless apartments on countless floors,
Governments scrambling.
No one unscathed.

Metropolitan Freeze,
Educational environments collecting dust,
New platforms for study and for work
Toilet paper hoarding.
Architecture of COVID-19,
Learning to live with new limits.

Happy playgrounds closed off,
Environmental pollution dissipating,
Adapting socialization to new constraints.
Lonely elders,
Together and apart,
Holding on for the Vaccine.
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