Advancing a new urban social contract for all — Rethinking who “we” are

What lessons can we learn from COVID-19 to be inclusive in our design of a new urban social contract? Who are the voices we are leaving out that need to be heard?

By Dora Heng

Diseases do not discriminate, but the irony of the “equal opportunity” COVID-19 virus is that the burden of pandemic is unequally borne by marginalized and vulnerable communities. In my home country Singapore, despite being hailed as model of early success in managing the pandemic, the undercurrents of…