This project builds upon work undertaken in the first round of Rome Cities Partnership funding 2019-20 (between Universita Roma Tre and UCL) in order to develop a short course designed for both postgraduate students and professionals in both London and Rome. During our initial Cities Partnership project, the two partners developed materials which sought to understand and explore urban densification in both Rome and London. This project seeks to build upon this by developing a short course which would comparatively explore the challenges of delivering intelligent urban density in the time of COVID in both cities.