Exploring the margin to make a revolution with geography: DGEI in Detroit. –The contribution presents the geographical experience of the DGEI - still little known in the Italian academia-lead by Bunge and Warren, in which theory and practice were applied questioning “the geography of the status quo” in a Detroit poor neighborhood, Fitzgerald. The DGEI was certainly
unconventional in research methods and topics for the time, but relevant today for all those who deal with inequality, social injustice and the right to the city and are in search of new research directions and methodologies.

Geographies of Covid-19. – A first analysis of the scenario occurred as a consequence of the Covid-19 pandemic puts in evidence the changes in the way people deal with the spatial-time dimension, in the human rela-tions and in the consequent socio-territorial configurations.
Since the first moments of the pandemic geography gave an important contribution in the study of the phenomenon and in the analysis of its territorial consequences, useful to elaborate solutions from the global to the local scales.
In this path, the reflections made in the field of geography, and in partic-ular in this issue, regard on one side the global modifications on interna-tional assets, travels and mobility, globalization and borders, on the other side the changes in the daily way of living, furnishing tools useful to con-trast the pandemic and models for a sustainable development.