COVID and urban planning

idealized midcentury middle class family watching TV

We’ll be talking about urban planning next week. The disruptions of the COVID-19 pandemic are inviting some to think BIG, going so far as to suggest that we should use this opportunity to revise cities to operate in new ways, by, for instance, more or less…

abolishing cars: “American Cities Are Built for Cars. The Coronavirus Could Change That.”

or

abolishing families: “Covid-19 Is Straining the Concept of the Family. Let’s Break It.”