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Can City Life Survive Coronavirus? By Michael Kimmelman

13 April 2020

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Pandemics are anti-urban. They exploit our impulse to congregate. And our response so far — social distancing — not only runs up against our fundamental desires to interact, but also against the way we have built our cities and plazas,…

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Pandemics Are Also an Urban Planning Problem By Ian Klaus

26 March 2020

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Disease shapes cities and now COVID-19 is joining a long list of infectious diseases, like the Spanish flu of 1918 in New York and Mexico City or the Ebola Virus Disease in West Africa in 2014, likely to leave enduring…

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Can City Life Survive Coronavirus? By Michael Kimmelman

Pandemics Are Also an Urban Planning Problem By Ian Klaus