Urban life/lives and COVID-19

Presented on the Journal of Public Space webinar, 6 August, 2020. There's been a lot of talk about the future of cities and COVID-19. A simple Google search for "post-COVID public spaces" will show us results about adapting the world to “the new normal”: to summarize, we are talking about design, smart cities, technology, sustainability, masks, restaurants, bicycles, tactical urbanism, etc. Also, a lot is said about how we are now realizing how vital public spaces are, how necessary it i..