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Hard to think that we’re now in a world where proximity is a friction. For anyone working on cities, we’re in the Upside Down.
I’m collecting some pieces here which have a similar mood.
First one HT @john_tomaney https://www.citylab.com/design/2020/03/coronavirus-urban-planning-global-cities-infectious-disease/607603/?utm_source=twb
Good walk-thro by @emilymbadger https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/24/upshot/coronavirus-urban-density-risks.html
Fear of density https://www.ft.com/content/27fe4484-6907-11ea-800d-da70cff6e4d3
This Very Geoff Dyer piece has not aged well since last week https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/03/23/the-existential-inconvenience-of-coronavirus
Urban / tech predictions by @glichfield https://www.technologyreview.com/s/615370/coronavirus-pandemic-social-distancing-18-months/
Some global economic geography, as framed by @davies_will https://theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/mar/24/coronavirus-crisis-change-world-financial-global-capitalism
Inevitable series of beautiful pictures of empty urban spaces https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/03/23/world/coronavirus-great-empty.html
Post-virus speculative urbanism by @hackneylad (HT @john_tomaney and @lizmoor) https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/mar/26/life-after-coronavirus-pandemic-change-world
Unpolluted urban skies, a thread https://twitter.com/laura_nelson/status/1243000005423587328?s=21 https://twitter.com/laura_nelson/status/1243000005423587328
Empty London I https://twitter.com/sophieraworth/status/1243437168296681477?s=21 https://twitter.com/sophieraworth/status/1243437168296681477
Empty London II https://twitter.com/beckybedbug/status/1243897214436507649?s=21 https://twitter.com/BeckyBedbug/status/1243897214436507649
Empty London III https://twitter.com/lewis_goodall/status/1245041206175969281?s=21 https://twitter.com/lewis_goodall/status/1245041206175969281
This very FT piece is a classic of its kind https://www.ft.com/content/da3a4f5a-b591-488c-87d7-4fe335a76b12?segmentId=bf7fa2fd-67ee-cdfa-8261-b2a3edbdf916
The urban Upside Down for the 1% https://twitter.com/quantanamo/status/1244801300895850496?s=21 https://twitter.com/Quantanamo/status/1244801300895850496
Scenes from the last world. https://twitter.com/pickardje/status/1246019734124011520?s=21 https://twitter.com/PickardJE/status/1246019734124011520
Density is the enemy. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/23/nyregion/coronavirus-nyc-crowds-density.html
Maybe it’s just my age, but this one hits really hard. https://twitter.com/danjohnsonnews/status/1246370476059959297?s=21 https://twitter.com/danjohnsonnews/status/1246370476059959297
“The optimistic scenario” from John Cochran’s, HT @Gilesyb https://johnhcochrane.blogspot.com/2020/04/whack-mole-long-run-virus.html
