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What’s the future for cities in the postpandemic world?

Apr 15, 202437 min
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Episode description

Co-host Janet Bush talks with Ed Glaeser, the Fred and Eleanor Glimp Professor of Economics and the chairman of the Department of Economics at Harvard University. His latest book, coauthored with health economist David Cutler, is Survival of the city: The future of urban life in an age of isolation, written to make sense of what might be the impact of the pandemic on cities. They covers topics including:

•    Has the pandemic changed cities temporarily or permanently?
•    What does the hybrid building look like? 
•    Do developing world cities teach us something new? 
•    How can homelessness be tackled? 

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