Cities are not suitable for distancingWuhan, Milan, Madrid, New York, New Delhi, these metropolises were proof that we had arrived in the age of cities in which large and dense urban conglomerations were the centers of global commerce, creativity and civilization and the place where most of the world's growing population lives.
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It's undeniable these days that urbanism is one of the most important drivers of both social and economic life in the United States. Even if most people live in the suburbs, most economic innovation occurs in cities and large metropolitan areas, and these are the places that are prospering the most (William Fulton ,director of the Kinder Institute for Urban Research at Rice University)
The pandemic has turned these centers from places of attraction to places of distancing, has vacated urban life and transformed the value of connection to a deadly threat. Will there be lessons that should be applied?Will this inversion of values have a lasting impact or will cities bounce back and continue as before?
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