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Plain English with Derek Thompson cover image

How American Cities Can Avoid the ‘Urban Doom Loop’

Plain English with Derek Thompson

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The Pre-Covid Trend in Urban Economics

Cities that are dependent on very innovative and extremely high paid employees seem to do worse. Cities that have really strong dependence on public transport suffer more at the moment. I think what we'll probably see is very similar to what happened in music, where the biggest winners are actually going to be bigger than ever. So it's like really the kind of abundance agenda for cities where people suddenly have toys.

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