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">https://www.citylab.com/design/20...
Pandemics Are Also an Urban Planning Problem

Will COVID-19 change how cities are designed? Michele Acuto of the Connected Cities Lab talks about density, urbanization and pandemic preparation.  

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">https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/2...
Density Is Normally Good for Us. That Will Be True After Coronavirus, Too.

The very thing that has made cities vulnerable in a pandemic has protected them in other disasters.

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">https://www.ft.com/content/2...
A new reckoning for urban life

It is no great leap to see contagion as the new city-voiding dread

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">https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/...
The Existential Inconvenience of Coronavirus

The physical effects of the outbreak lie in the future, but the psychic toll is already huge—and wide-ranging.

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/">https://www.technologyreview.com/s/615370/...
We’re not going back to normal

Social distancing is here to stay for much more than a few weeks. It will upend our way of life, in some ways forever.

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">https://theguardian.com/commentis...
The last global crisis didn't change the world. But this one could | William Davies

The financial crisis of 2008 failed to provoke a fundamental shift in global capitalism. Will this moment be different? asks political economist William Davies

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">https://www.nytimes.com/interacti...
The Great Empty

There is a certain beauty in the expanses of public space, now vacant amid the pandemic, these photos from around the world show. There is also a reminder: True beauty comes when the builders roam...

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">https://www.theguardian.com/world/202...
Cities after coronavirus: how Covid-19 could radically alter urban life

Pandemics have always shaped cities – and from increased surveillance to ‘de-densification’ to new community activism, Covid-19 is doing it already

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_nel... https://twitter.com/laura_nelson/status/1243000005423587328">https://twitter.com/laura_nel...
Empty London I https://twitter.com/sophieraworth/status/1243437168296681477?s=21">https://twitter.com/sophieraw... https://twitter.com/sophieraworth/status/1243437168296681477">https://twitter.com/sophieraw...
Empty London II https://twitter.com/beckybedbug/status/1243897214436507649?s=21">https://twitter.com/beckybedb... https://twitter.com/BeckyBedbug/status/1243897214436507649">https://twitter.com/BeckyBedb...
Empty London III https://twitter.com/lewis_goodall/status/1245041206175969281?s=21">https://twitter.com/lewis_goo... https://twitter.com/lewis_goodall/status/1245041206175969281">https://twitter.com/lewis_goo...
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">https://www.ft.com/content/d...
Running through deserted New York to fight pandemic panic

What it’s like to run through a locked-down city — and why getting out there now means so much more

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/quantanam... https://twitter.com/Quantanamo/status/1244801300895850496">https://twitter.com/Quantanam...
Scenes from the last world. https://twitter.com/pickardje/status/1246019734124011520?s=21">https://twitter.com/pickardje... https://twitter.com/PickardJE/status/1246019734124011520">https://twitter.com/PickardJE...
Density is the enemy. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/23/nyregion/coronavirus-nyc-crowds-density.html">https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/2...
Density Is New York City’s Big ‘Enemy’ in the Coronavirus Fight

New York is more crowded than any large city in the country. That helps explain why it is the U.S. epicenter of the outbreak.

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/danjohnso... https://twitter.com/danjohnsonnews/status/1246370476059959297">https://twitter.com/danjohnso...
“The optimistic scenario” from John Cochran’s, HT @Gilesyb https://johnhcochrane.blogspot.com/2020/04/whack-mole-long-run-virus.html">https://johnhcochrane.blogspot.com/2020/04/w...
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