dense populations, and a lack of hygiene all contributed to the development of the plague. The plague.
Typhoid and cholera. Respiratory diseases.
Black screens, vanishing faces. Not at work, working from home. Computers instead of classrooms. These are the first days of quarantine. We are living in quarantine. Yes, I remember. That’s why we have time.
I continue the lecture. I tell them how Napoleon III, with Haussmann at the helm, widened the streets of Paris; he extended the boulevards of the city to facilitate traffic and avoid congestion; he built parks for the health and well- being of his citizens; he installed new sewage systems for the city. Napoleon III brought air, light, clean water and hygiene into the city. I teach my students how the sweeping transformation of urban spaces led to a conquering of the diseases that used to spread like wildfire through the Parisian capital. And now? What about us? Is it time for us to radically re-envision new spaces and new designs that change our places of work, our places of social gathering, our means of transportation: our entire way of being? The year 2020. History being made tomorrow.
History being made today. History being taught today. The plague.
Typhoid and cholera. Respiratory diseases.
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