To understand how COVID-19 will influence Toronto’s future, we first must examine how public health policy established the city as we know it – along unequal lines. 

In order to truly understand these inequities, we need to engage with the longer, inseparable histories of public health and urban life in Toronto. Our current, collective spatial memories of the cityscape are deeply informed by them. And they hold a multitude of insights into the deep fractures that COVID-19 has only now laid bare - Nahomi Amberber.