City life after corona

By: Daniel Alexand…
Created: 29 May 2020 - 04:05
Updated: 29 May 2020 - 04:05

12 leading thinkers from around the world have shared their opinion on the way life in cities will look like after the corona crisis. Here are some of the most relevant theses: 

- The crisis may provide a short window for our unaffordable, hypergentrified cities to reset and to reenergize their creative scenes:

- If pandemics become the new normal, then tens of millions of urban service jobs will disappear;

- City mayors are already revisiting urban plans to prevent the next pandemic;

- Cities have endured terrible pandemics throughout history, yet they flourished to grow ever larger and denser;

- While it is impossible to predict what the new normal will be, it may well be reverse urbanization;

- Without safe shelter and access to basic services, the order to shelter in place has no meaning;

- Rapid migration from rural to urban areas, like what we have seen in India, cannot continue at the same speed;

- The pandemic reveals just how much cities depend on essential workers—and how much essential workers depend on public transport;

- History teaches us that crises usually bring about new government agencies and institutions;

- Answers may include developing personal, autonomous transport systems instead of forcing people into crowded subways;

- Many aspects to health security pose special challenges for cities, especially those involving the vulnerability of medical and food supply chains; 

- Cities will come back stronger than ever after the pandemic.

Take a look on https://foreignpolicy.com/2020/05/01/future-of-cities-urban-life-after-coronavirus-pandemic/