Local Interventions in the Midst of Global Crises Right to the City and the Role of Centers for Social Support and Neighborhood Crisis Management in Preventing the Spread of Coronavirus Disease

In the face of crises such as the outbreak of Coronavirus disease and other events such as floods and earthquakes, one of the missing components in the urban management system is neighborhood-scale social support centers - social and participatory mechanisms for identifying the capacities and deficiencies of small local communities before crises, directing and leading interventions during crises, and assisting and helping recover after crises. Since such structures would not be possible without the support of government and urban management systems, investigating psychological and social impacts of crises such as the Coronavirus outbreak in cities like Tehran, both in terms of the tools and capabilities to contain the spread and the impacts on the relationship between citizens and the systems of governance and urban management, suggest the importance of focused and consistent social protection policies and programs on a local scale.
Therefore, in this article, we try to revise the impacts of the spread of coronavirus as an urban crisis on the dialectical structures of the city and the citizen, the right to the city and emphasis on the need of social support programs at the local level in order to control and contain future urban and social crises as a local strategy for a global crisis.