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SCMP.com report about how coronavirus is transforming our space and architecture

Architects and urban designers are finding ways to adapt the spaces we live and work in amid the coronavirus pandemic,  Pablo Robles, Darren Long, Dennis Wong, Brian Wang and Adolfo Arranz at South China Morning Post report. Through history, they have joined the fight against infectious diseases. In the 1800s, Georges-Eugene Haussmann, commonly known as Baron Haussmann, led a vast public works programme to renovate Paris. This included demolishing overcrowded medieval neighbourhoods that were dark, damp, and disease-ridden. Across the Channel, London went through a similar transformation after devastating cholera outbreaks. Charles-Edouard Jeanneret, known as Le Corbusier, continued to update the design of public…
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