Thinking about what attack surface the virus exploited, strikes me it is the individualism-collectivism false dichotomy that runs deeply through architecture of the world. Despite stereotypes to the contrary, it runs as deep in Asia as in the West. Just cashed out differently.
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Sociospatialities have exploit attack surfaces. They also have political affordances. There’s an architecture thesis here. For eg, theocracies are clearly the most vulnerable. They like densely packed sociospatialities with ritual exchange of bodily fluids as a governance mode.
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A democracy that insists on in-person voting A republic that insists on packing representatives into a ceremonial building to deliberate A monarchy or autocracy that insists on its parades and pageants A mercantile culture that I distson dense commerce-focused cities
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Architects and urbanists really need to get on this and analyze this question of socio-spatial embodiment of individualism-collectivism, and it’s relation to “six feet” virus vulnerability
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