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Introduction: Dwelling and COVID-19

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The recent pandemic has made more evident the many unsolved cruxes of the human dwelling on earth that, for decades, have been ignored. The urban condition forcibly metaphysical and the over-compressed domestic one, determined by the lockdown period, provided more obvious connotations to a well-known situation. The SARS–Cov–2 and the COVID–19 viruses are, in chronological order, merely the last signal that the World has released, making more straightforward an extreme situation.

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Sciascia, A. (2022). Introduction: Dwelling and COVID-19. In: Campisi, G., Mocciaro Li Destri, A., Amenta, C. (eds) COVID-19 and Communities. UNIPA Springer Series. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-88622-6_9

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