Hi, Brian Lairer here.

Up next, Brian Lairor Weekend,

three of our favorite segments from the week,

packaged together for you to listen to on the weekend.

So enjoy, and I'll see you back on the radio Monday at 10 a.m.

on WNYC and WNYC.

So New York City is facing multiple challenges post-pandemic, as I don't have to tell you.

Think about the topics we talk about on this show.

Congestion pricing.

Funding of city services like the MTA and libraries, e-bike and moped traffic, shoplifting,

the influx of asylum seekers moving in while New Yorkers stressed by housing

costs and some others who just don't like it here anymore moving out. But are things really so bad?

The journal Vital City is out with a new issue in which leading urbanists, journalists, and thinkers

from a number of disciplines try to answer that question. And most of them actually think the city is bouncing back.

Even the economists who popularize the theory of the urban doom loop,

you know that phrase?

That's the idea that many people who can in the remote work era

will leave the city for the suburbs and not come back,

crashing the city's commercial real estate economy,

the office building economy, and the rest of the economy follows.

Well, the Dumers are looking at the young Zumers, and they have reassessed their thinking.

So joining me now to discuss the latest issue titled Is the Urban Doom Loop for Real, is Elizabeth Glazer,

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