After moving from the US to Europe there is something magical about walking around the city and town centers here. Not just the tourist traps like Rome and Paris but smaller towns and villages with tiny narrow streets lined with shops and restaurants and people walking around. So much better than the souless shells our downtowns have become in the US.
Wait, is this another trick to make me go back to the office?
I wouldn’t say thats what it is, but it is used for that
The 8000th “Covid killed cities” article, just shifting the goalposts and jumping around to different cities with different metrics out of context to make it seem worse than it is.
Capitalism killed cities, not COVID.
Urbanization has been increasing globally for hundreds of years. Nothing killed cities.
No one wants to be downtown in any city. That’s where all of the trouble is, drug addicts, homeless, crime…
I avoid downtown at all costs in all of the cities near me.
