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Richard Florida: COVID-19 offers opportunity to build stronger cities

by MEYER S
Published in October 2020

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COVID-19 has caused an economic crisis to rival the 2018 recession. The pandemic has widened health care and fiscal impacts that are falling harder on minorities and the less advantaged.

That said, urbanist Richard Florida sees the pandemic as offering a “once in a century opportunity.” That opportunity, he explains, is to rebuild stronger communities across the globe.

Florida is a celebrated author with a four-decade career championing the development of urban

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