Will coronavirus cause a big city exodus?
Matthew Clancy, Diane Coyle, Jonathan Dingel, Elena Magrini, Philip McCann, Max Nathan, Henry G. Overman and Helen Simpson
Big cities thrive because of the economic and social benefits of proximity - but proximity also helps to spread Covid-19. Does this mean an end to the big city revival of recent years? Much will depend on how quickly we exit the pandemic - and how far the forced experiments of lockdown translate into new norms.
22 September 2020
Economics Observatory
https://www.economicsobservatory.com/will-coronavirus-cause-big-city-exodus
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