How the Coronavirus Recovery Is Changing Cities

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As cities emerge from coronavirus lockdowns, the way people use parks, stores, restaurants, transit, streets and homes is changing in ways both subtle and dramatic

With everybody spread further apart, the crux of many of these changes is space. Most people will need more of it, posing one of the great design challenges of the period for already built-up, congested cities. There will be a premium placed on repurposing outdoor space so that more gathering activities can take place in the open air. “We will need to transform the link between indoors and outdoors, to reshape streets as the prolongation of indoor areas,” says Carlos Moreno, professor of territorial entrepreneurship and innovation at IAE Sorbonne and adviser to the city of Paris.

Fewer Riders at Rush Hour
More Deliveries, More Essential Workers
Everything Al Fresco
Rat Wars
Parking Lots Are the New Parks
Seeing a Show ... From Home
Recycling Retail
The Home Office, School, Gym and Day Care
Groceries at a Distance
Empty Hotels and More Homeless
Reconfigured Streets

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