Executive Briefing

Cities aren’t over

But they’ll be different. It’s like a software update.

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Photo: Kyler Boone / Unsplash

It isn’t an earthquake or a flood, but in many ways, Covid-19 is the worst natural disaster of our time. It has devastated communities, broken families and businesses, and highlighted modern humanity’s fallibility and vulnerability despite great wealth and sophistication.

It will also require rebuilding, but a different kind of rebuilding than after a hurricane or fire.

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Dan Frommer

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