Suddenly cities in southern British Columbia (BC) sounded differently. On March 17, 2020 the BC Provincial Health Director called a public health emergency of the pandemic. Public and postsecondary schools were suspended, gatherings of more than 50 people were banned, non-essential businesses and services shut down, outdoor recreation facilities were taped off, non-essential travel was discouraged, and physical distancing guidelines were issued. As with the rest of the province, residents of the three largest urban centres in BC were advised to remain at home. Unlike residents of cities in Italy, Spain, India and elsewhere that were under strict lockdown orders, we were never strictly forbidden by government orders to leave our homes and places of shelter. Regardless, the shift away from normal everyday mobility to the public health-regulated immobility was sudden and drastic for much of the urban population. Within a matter of days, Kelowna, Victoria and Vancouver became urban spaces void of visible and audible human activity in an unprecedented way -or, as we’ve come to learn, empty of particular human activity.

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Urban Syncopation：在加拿大不列颠哥伦比亚省 COVID-19 期间策划声音、常态和差异

突然间，不列颠哥伦比亚省 (BC) 南部的城市听起来不一样了。2020 年 3 月 17 日，不列颠哥伦比亚省卫生厅长宣布了大流行的突发公共卫生事件。公立学校和中学后学校停课，禁止 50 多人的集会，关闭非必要的企业和服务，关闭户外娱乐设施，不鼓励不必要的旅行，并发布了社交距离指南。与该省其他地区一样，卑诗省三个最大城市中心的居民被建议留在家中。与意大利、西班牙、印度和其他地方受到严格封锁令的城市居民不同，我们从未被政府命令严格禁止离开家园和避难所。不管，对于大部分城市人口来说，从正常的日常出行转向公共卫生监管的不动是突然而剧烈的。几天之内，基洛纳、维多利亚和温哥华以前所未有的方式变成了没有可见和可听人类活动的城市空间——或者，正如我们已经了解到的那样，没有特定的人类活动。