Building Better Cities After Covid-19

Azeem Azhar's Exponential View

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🗓️ 20 May 2020

⏱️ 43 minutes

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How do we build better cities after the coronavirus crisis? The World Bank’s Sameh Wahba joins Azeem Azhar to discuss how the World Bank partners with technologists to help cities on the frontline of the pandemic, and how the dynamism of urban density can be harnessed to build the livable and inclusive cities of the future. Note: We updated one sentence in this interview for clarity.

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0:45.8	Now today's recording is special we're recording in front of a small virtual audience from the exponential view community.
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1:02.2	Today my guest is Samo Waba, the Global Director for the World Bank's
1:06.0	Urban Disaster Risk Management, Resilience and Land Global Practice and I've invited him to join me in discussing the future of cities and urbanization in the light of the COVID-19 outbreak.
1:18.0	Now while some argue that COVID-19 is going to lead to the demise of cities.
1:23.0	Summer believes that cities are engines of civilization and economic growth
1:27.0	could come out of this crisis stronger and more resilient than ever.
1:32.0	Some are very welcome to exponential view.
1:35.0	Thank you, Azim.
1:36.0	It's a pleasure for me to be here.
1:38.0	It would be fair to say that certainly if we're looking at this from Europe or the US and we read about how coronavirus
1:44.8	transmits in restaurants, crowded offices, transit systems recently in a string of
1:50.9	nightclubs and bars in Seoul in Korea, one common response is that cities are a really big problem when we think about
2:00.3	respiratory pandemics like this. I mean that is a reasonable response to what we're
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