Tales of our cities

Manhatten skyline (Image: Wikimedia Commons)

New York. New York. One of my favourite cities. Badly hit by the virus but now slowly recovering. Many other cities across the world have also been severely affected, including London, Tehran, Wuhan, Milan, Sao Paulo and Madrid.

How have these experiences changed our cities and their inhabitants? What lessons for the future will be learned by the leaders of our great urban complexes?

Here are some thought-provoking and readable predictions by twelve of the world’s leading urban thinkers. They are quoted in an article in Foreign Policy magazine, which has also run think-pieces on how the pandemic will change the global economy and government powers.

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