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As part of their efforts to grapple with coronavirus pandemic’s catastrophic effects on cities, their economies, and most of all the victims of the disease and their families and communities, NewCities and CoMotion – the sister organizations of which I am director of research and strategy, respectively – have sprung into action.
For the next five weeks (and likely beyond), NewCities and I are hosting The Big Rethink: Cities After COVID-19, a weekly live Webcast exploring the pandemic’s impact on a different aspect of urbanism each week. The April 7th premiere on the future of public space starring the architect Jeanne Gang, sociologist Richard Sennett, and Los Angeles chief design officer Christopher Hawthorne attracted more than 2,000 participants from 76 countries. The second episode, on how public transit can bounce back after the crisis, attracted more than a thousand.
Please join us on Tuesdays at 12 PM EDT, for the remaining episodes:
April 29th: The Wellbeing Imperative
May 5th: Beyond Megacities: Rethinking Density
May 12th: The How, What, And Where of Work
May 19th: Climate and Decarbonization
May 26th: Lessons for Greenfield Megaprojects
Simultaneously, CoMotion has launched CoMotion LIVE, its own weekly series exploring the pandemic’s impact on various aspects of urban mobility. The most recent episode – “Is Sharing Dead? What Micromobility 2.0 Will Look Like in Post-COVID Cities” – is embedded below; visit CoMotion News to register for future episodes.
Please watch this space as we continue to cover the pandemic’s impacts on cities around the world and develop new formats for convening urban leaders virtually to collaborate on how best to move forward after the immediate crisis.
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Greg Lindsay is a generalist, urbanist, futurist, and speaker. He is a non-resident senior fellow of the Arizona State University Threatcasting Lab, a non-resident senior fellow of MIT’s Future Urban Collectives Lab, and a non-resident senior fellow of the Atlantic Council’s Scowcroft Strategy Initiative. He was the founding chief communications officer of Climate Alpha and remains a senior advisor. Previously, he was an urban tech fellow at Cornell Tech’s Jacobs Institute, where he explored the implications of AI and augmented reality at urban scale.
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