This newsletter from the Project for Public Spaces connects people who share a passion for public spaces to ideas and issues, news, quotes, places, and events from the placemaking movement. COVID-19 has laid bare the issues of systemic inequity many of us knew existed all along. In this issue we highlight an upcoming webinar - Equity & Recovery in Public Space During COVID-19 - where an interdisciplinary panel of experts will discuss equitable development in our social and economic recovery from the pandemic.

Greetings from CityNet Secretariat. It has been over two months since the WHO declared COVID-19 outbreak a pandemic. Accordingly, many of our member cities have initiated total lockdown and taken a forceful pause on overall economic activities. It led many of those cities under lockdown to struggle with keeping a balance between following social distancing and keeping the nationwide economy afloat.