Daily: The city that never sleeps? – Waking up urban spaces after COVID

The Bunker – News without the nonsense

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🗓️ 14 October 2021

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Cities are slowly coming back to life after COVID. But has the pandemic permanently changed our urban spaces, and how we live within them? Co-author of Survival of the City and Harvard University Professor Edward L. Glaeser talks to Ros Taylor about how commuting has always been defined by class divides, whether fifteen minute cities could work…and why we need a “NATO of healthcare”. “Once we’re healthy again, there’s little chance cities will atomise.” “There's no Democratic or Republican way to clean the streets. The same should go for fighting pandemics.” “Teleworking makes cities up their game on cost and quality of life.” Presented by Ros Taylor. Produced by Andrew Harrison. Assistant producers: Jelena Sofronijevic and Jacob Archbold. Music by Kenny Dickinson. Audio production by Alex Rees. THE BUNKER is a Podmasters Production https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/669805/survival-of-the-city-by-edward-glaeser-and-david-cutler/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:05.5	photography but I turn it into earning a living at 60. I enrolled on a day course.
0:11.8	Well college. I loved going to college. It's good you can retry. I'm enrolled on the day course. But college?
0:13.0	I loved going to college.
0:14.0	It's good you can retrain and do something.
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0:55.3	look after theirs with dental life. Pick up dental life in the pet food aisle. Welcome to the bunker, I'm Ros Taylor. I don't think I will ever forget walking through St Pancras Station with no one else in it, watching
1:15.8	trains stop for no one to get on and no one to get off.
1:19.2	And eight months later walking past restaurants that would have been humming with tipsy people and Christmas lights,
1:24.0	with their chairs stacked on the table and a homeless person sleeping in the doorway.
1:27.8	Cities are finally coming back to life now, but how much has changed?
1:32.1	Which cities will thrive and which are going to be in trouble
1:35.5	and what can we do to stop them shutting down again? Edward Glazer is a professor of
1:40.6	economics at Harvard and the author with David Cutler of survival of the city
1:45.2	living and thriving in an age of isolation. Ed if I may welcome to the bunker.
1:49.7	Thank you so much for having me on. I was to talk first about 1348.
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