This essay brings to the top of the Corona Virus pandemic the article Ghost Towns, written in 2001, as a criticism of architectural photography. It constituted a premonitory vision of the abandonment of the traditional city metaphorized in architectural photographs, and of the human absence in architectural history magazines and books, for a new city model. The essay also presents the model of anti-pestilent city and income as new forms of disciplinarity and control of cities from the 18th to the 21st century