Today we have a visit from Philadelphia sanitation worker and essential worker advocate Terrill Haigler, also known as Ya Fav Trashman.  Then I will talk to Shlomo Angel, Roger Keil, and Xuefei Ren about the importance of metropolitan regions in the response to COVID-19.
Roger Keil is a Professor at the Faculty of Environmental and Urban Change, York University in Toronto, Canada. He is the author of Suburban Planet (Polity 2018), co-editor, with Judy Branfman of Public Los Angeles: A Private City's Activist Futures (UGAPress 2020), with Xuefei Ren, of The Globalizing Cities Reader (Routledge 2017) and with K. Murat Güney and Murat Üçoğlu of Massive Suburbanization (UTP 2019). Keil is doing ongoing comparative work with colleagues locally and internationally on the relationship of the COVID-19 pandemic and cities. 
Shlomo (Solly) Angel is a Professor of City Planning and the Director of the Urban Expansion Program at the Marron Institute of Urban Management at New York University. He is the author of Planet of Cities (2012) and Housing Policy Matters (2000), the leading author of the Atlas of Urban Expansion—2016 Edition, and co-author of A Pattern Language (1977). Since 2012, he led teams assisting intermediate cities in Colombia and Ethiopia in preparing for their rapid expansion.