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44. Edward Glaeser Explains Why Some Cities Thrive While Others Fade Away

People I (Mostly) Admire

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The Black Plague and the Work From Home Thing

Cities have survived bigger cones than covid much worse. This is nowhere near as bad as the 19 seventies, when you had the shock of industrialization and suburbanization at the same time. The way that i think about it is not that urban life as a whole is under threat, but that individual cities are more vulnerable than ever.

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