UTTRI associated faculty Professor Richard Florida, along with ten other leading global experts, shared his predictions for post-COVID cities in “How Life in Our Cities Will Look After the Coronavirus Pandemic,” Foreign Policy, May 1, 2020.
Florida reviews the effects of past pandemics on the world’s urban centres.
Great cities will survive the coronavirus. Cities have been the epicenters of infectious disease since the time of Gilgamesh, and they have always bounced back—often stronger than before.
He looks at the fear of density and, on the flip side, to new opportunities created by the pandemic and how both might “re-shape” cities in different ways.
Urbanization has always been a greater force than infectious disease.
Read the full article here on the Foreign Policy website.
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