Why Cities Can't Do Social Distancing | Footnotes with Deyan Sudjic

Author, critic and former Design Museum director Deyan Sudjic explains why cities have developed in ways which are incompatible with our current need for social distancing - and what is being done to forge a path to a new normal. Order 'The Language of Cities': https://amzn.to/3903dsy

As governments around the world prepare to ease coronavirus lockdown measures and develop plans to return to working life, we are learning that what was the 'norm' just won’t be possible in a world with social distancing. Cities and how they function must now be reimagined.

The Language of Cities:
We live in a world that is now predominantly urban. So how do we define the city as it evolves in the twenty-first century? Drawing examples from across the globe, Deyan Sudjic decodes the underlying forces that shape our cities, such as resources and land, to the ideas that shape conscious elements of design, whether of buildings or of space. Erudite and entertaining, he considers the differences between capital cities and the rest to understand why it is that we often feel more comfortable in our identities as Londoners, Muscovites, or Mumbaikars than in our national identities.

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