How covid-19 influences the 2030 Agenda: Do the practices of achieving the sustainable development goal 11 need rethinking and adjustment?/ Come il Covid-19 influenza l’Agenda 2030: le pratiche di raggiungimento dello SDG11 devono essere ripensate e aggio

Our cities represent the crucial nodes of interventionto improve living conditions and promote sustainability.Therefore, the current pandemic, combined with theclimate emergency, translates into an urban emergency.In light of the devastating effects of Covid-19 and therethinking of the concept of sustainability, the goal ofdeveloping inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainablecities and human settlements pursued by theSustainable Development Goal 11 may now requirerevision in terms of the indicators used for itsmonitoring. Indicators are crucial since they help tomake sustainable development visible and transparent,enable comparison, build and harmonize databases andprovide information relevant to decision-makingprocesses and urban and territorial policies byfacilitating communication across arenas. The aim ofthis paper is to provide a picture of the indicatorscurrently used to monitor SDG11, to present a series ofcritical reviews of them in light of the Covid-19emergency, and to suggest the introduction of somenew indicators, thus opening a scientific debate on thetopic.