![]() ![]() ![]() This presentation draws attention to how historical models of public health have aggravated racial, class and spatial disparities that make essential workers, immigrant workers and impoverished urban communities acutely vulnerable, while middle and upper class communities command relative safety and health preservation resources. The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has profoundly upended assumptions of human habitation, proximity and health and demands a reassessment of a century and half of public health governance in society and its manifestations both locally and trans-locally. ![]() via Zoom as part of the Rice Architecture Spring 2021 Lecture Series. Nayan Shah, professor of American Studies and Ethnicity and History, University of Southern California, presents the lecture "Spatial Inequities: The “Chinatown” Problem in Today’s Pandemic Times" at 12:00 p.m. ![]()
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