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

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

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

Speaker: Leo Mirani, Senior Britain Correspondent from The Economist

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

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

Can globalisation survive coronavirus or will the pandemic kill it?

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

 
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