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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

CHAPTER

The Future of Urban Spaces

The pre-COVID world was exquisitely bifurcated for a lot of workers. Their home was just their home, their office was just their office when they went to get coffee. But now they work at home. So the home is blended. They work in the coffee shop if they get tired of home and they don't have an office to go to. The New York Stock Exchange started on the Tontine coffee shop. Even there within the food away industry, you have this concept of blending that maybe this culture of blended spaces is just in the ether.

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