Post-Covid-19 Cities

The outburst of Covid-19 has changed our lives in many different ways. It is also reshaping the cities around us. Cities may need to undergo some major transformations in the “post-Covid” era. Professionals around the world have started to share ideas on how cities would look like after the pandemic.

 

The Future of Cities After Covid-19 | WSJ

In the following interesting video, the Wall Street Journal simulates our daily routines in the post-Covid world and offers a glimpse of how future cities will be like:

Speakers: Jaden Urbi, Journalist from Wall Street Journal; Nayan Parekh, Principal of Gensler Singapore

The coronavirus pandemic could have a lasting impact on city life. WSJ's Jaden Urbi explores how the ways we work, shop and play are changing as urban design...


Covid-19: is working from home really the new normal? | The Economist

The two upcoming videos add on to talk about how urban work lives and the travel industry may never be the same, and offer planners a food for thought on the pandemic’s implications on cities:

Speakers: Philip Coggan, Columnist from The Economist; Alice Fulwood, Wall Street Correspondent from The Economist

The covid-19 pandemic has accelerated a shift towards remote working. This could affect not just people's working lives, but the shape of cities, gender equa...

Covid-19: why travel will never be the same | The Economist

Speaker: Leo Mirani, Senior Britain Correspondent from The Economist

Covid-19 has devastated global travel and-as the industry recovers from the effects of the pandemic-tourism will be increasingly localised and complicated. T...


Designing "healthy cities" becoming more important amid COVID-19 pandemic

In the next stimulating video, the speaker offers his views on how the land-use planning system in UK should be re-shaped in the post-Covid world:

Speaker: Roger Evans, Principal of Roger Evans Associates Ltd

New lives, new values. Roger Evans. Studio Real


Will covid kill globalisation? | The Economist

Lastly, the two upcoming videos from The Economist and South China Morning Post provide us a macro view on how globalization is affected by the pandemic. In the video from The Economist, the term “slowbalisation” is explained:

Speaker: Vijay V. Vaitheeswaran, US business editor from The Economist

Covid-19 has been the third major disruption to globalisation within the past twelve years. The pandemic will not kill globalisation off, but it will deepen ...

Can globalisation survive coronavirus or will the pandemic kill it?

Speaker: Heiwai Tang, Professor of Economics of The University of Hong Kong