Around the end of 2019, in Wuhan, Hubei Province, China, the first confirmed cases of COVID-19 were identified, and from then on, the world we were used to knowing changed globally. The pandemic had and will have enormous economic, social, and structural impacts, and the consequences are yet to be defined. It is precisely these unanswered questions that capture the interest of many researchers in various research fields. Besides the focus on medical studies, a relevant share of research connected the dynamics of the pandemic to cities and how they responded, bringing back the debate on their potential vulnerabilities. Indeed, the outbreak has drawn significant global attention to how starkly differentiated the spread was across different neighbourhoods.