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Today, Explained

City Limits: Beware the Doom Loop

Today, Explained

Vox

Politics, Daily News, News

4.3 • 10.3K Ratings

🗓️ 17 March 2023

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

Pandemic restrictions are mostly over, but cities are still struggling to recover. Empty offices threaten to set off a downward spiral of falling tax revenue and declining services. Today, Explained’s Miles Bryan tries to stop the doom loop before it starts. This episode was reported and produced by Miles Bryan with help from Amanda Lewellyn. It was edited by Matt Collette with help from Jolie Myers, fact-checked by Laura Bullard, engineered by Paul Robert Mounsey, and hosted by Sean Rameswaram. Transcript at vox.com/todayexplained   Support Today, Explained by making a financial contribution to Vox! bit.ly/givepodcasts  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

It's been three years since the world shut down and things are back to normal.

0:04.6

Ish.

0:05.6

According to Bloomberg News, Manhattan workers are spending at least $12.4 billion less on

0:11.8

meals, on shopping, on entertainment and more per year.

0:15.7

And that's because they're spending about 30% less of their time in the office.

0:19.6

The shift to remote work is the biggest change to urban life since cities went from being

0:23.7

organized around factories to being organized around offices.

0:27.8

But today explained, we've been trying to figure out the ramifications of remote work and

0:31.3

the best conclusion we can come to is that to thrive in this new era, America's cities

0:36.3

need to embrace new ideas about who and what is at the center of urban life.

0:41.4

Over the next few weeks, we're going to bring you a few episodes on the problems American

0:44.7

cities are facing and some solutions too.

0:47.3

And today, we're kicking things off with a dose of doom.

0:58.8

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1:05.5

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