How COVID-19 Changed Our Cities: Evidence from a National Survey

Human behavior is notoriously difficult to change, but a disruption of the magnitude of the COVID-19 pandemic has the potential to bring about long-term behavioral changes. During the pandemic, people were forced to experience new ways of interacting, working, learning, shopping, traveling, and eating meals. A critical question going forward is how these experiences have actually changed preferences and habits in ways that might persist. We collected a nationally-representative, 3-wave panel survey in the U.S. that aims to shed light on this question. This talk will draw from these data to describe how the pandemic did (and did not) change how we live in cities, what we still don\u27t know, and in which areas urban planners should adjust their assumptions as we look to the future.https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/trec_seminar/1232/thumbnail.jp