The crisis brought about by the pandemic and the resulting new global order compel us to review and adjust all Land-Use Plans—or their local equivalents—across Latin American cities.
Whether in Latin American countries with established land-use planning systems or across the globe, cities now face an immediate obligation to start planning the new urban structures forced upon us by the COVID-19 pandemic and its long-term effects.
The world is no longer the same, nor will it ever be. A new order is already in place, and cities are not exempt from adapting to it. On the contrary, they must be the first to offer efficient answers and solutions to the new way of life imposed by social distancing, isolation, the prevention of crowding, and shifts in individual mobility—measures that will govern our lives until vaccines are validated and distributed.
