big cities were unstoppable. Year after year places like New York, London and Paris grew richer and busier. Since the turn of the century they have shrugged off a dotcom crash, a financial crisis, terrorist attacks and political populism caused partly by resentment at their prosperity and arrogance. Could their magical run possibly be coming to an end?
The virus has attacked the core of what makes these cities vibrant and successful. They prosper not so much because of what they do for businesses, but because they cram together talented people who are fizzing with ideas. Americans in cities with more than 1m people are 50% more productive than those elsewhere.
And yet cities are stronger and more resilient than they seem. As with so much else, the fate of cities hangs on the development of treatments and vaccines. But their magic cannot be woven from afar as easily as some suppose.
Already is, droves moving to the suburbs.
A complex tale of the Bat & Pangolin & Chinese research lab in Wuhan ?
Well there’s way less rationale to have 75% of the population living in 10% of the land area. Our current technologies have made it unnecessary to interact in person for the vast majority of business dealings.
Democrats run everything into the ground
No.
If big cities disappear, civilization and culture will decline and fade.
It seems so?
Nah
This is not the first time a pandemic hits a big city yet they continue. The rationale for large cities to exist (& flourish) is overwhelming.
Big cities are like mecca for young people. The amount of fun, adventure and excitement you can feel in big cities can't be matched. Work and party in big cities, but retire in small cities.
It's been a good 9,000 years for cities through plagues, war, natural disasters and technological change. Will online air make us free?
The residents of Seoul read this article and laughed.
When World War II ended Los Angeles was innovative and needed talented designers and builders. This was realized and the city flourished.🍁
No, but it will take a few years and evidence that governments are prepared for the next pandemic.
No. This will pass and won't reverse a process that has been going on for centuries.
probably not. Like it or not, people still love going out, proximity to things and other people..
Hope so
The rich have returned to the suburbs....yippee. Leaving the city in the hands of the creative community.
LiveFromLondon8 ooh looks like the big apple is calling!
Our Society Isn't Sustainable Anymore
wakeup
China, with no nukes, destroied the West
As the ‘burbs high street pick up and start to flourish.
BLM before any of that! White power and white privilege must end on Earth. Whites must become hospitality workers for black bosses NOW!
This is not a result of the pandemic. It’s the result of the misinformed response to the pandemic which you idiotically supported. has become a pathetic imitation of its previous, great self.
The left agenda wins! Crush small business
I’d risk a lung to hang out with other people over a beer, but coffee? I rank ice cream shops for my lung about 10 levels above a bitter concoction without liquor. Hell, I rank a salon for my lung over coffee shop. Wait...I’d rank a taco stand lung value over a coffee.
I'd say many have already busted
Good. Coffee carts are where it’s at anyway.
I think if I ever went back to working from the office I would eat out less, can't believe how much I'm saving.
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