Your Year In Maps
Readers around the world visualize their experiences of the trauma, tumult and transformation brought on by Covid-19.
How were the landscapes of our lives reshaped by the pandemic? For the better part of the last year, we’ve been asking CityLab readers to create their own maps that show what their worlds look like after coronavirus and its coinciding economic, environmental and social sea changes. Our project started in April, as the first wave of stay-at-home orders and shutdowns swept hundreds of countries around the globe.
Like the maps we received earlier this year, the sample below is a remarkable tour of Covid-19’s reach, representing stories from four continents and many walks of life. Our most recent round of submissions and accompanying stories depicted more entrenched changes. More than one year after the first reported case of Covid-19 in Wuhan, once-startling shifts in daily rhythms have become routine. For some, the year’s tragedies have honed their appreciation for the absurd. With social connections limited, mapmakers deepened existing relationships or looked inward. For others, the pain and shock of losing family, friends and communities are lasting.