Covid-19 spread so rapidly because urbanization is now planetary: connecting disparate territories through flows of goods and people.

Éric Charmes
Éric Charmes is a research director (EVS-RIVES, University of Lyon, ENTPE). A specialist in urban studies and urbanism, he has worked extensively on street uses, public spaces, gated communities, and residential territorialization. Today, he focuses on the peripheries of large metropolises.