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According to the UN, 55 percent of the world’s population currently lives in cities. By 2050, that number is expected to reach 68 percent. There has been much talk of Covid-19 destroying or hollowing out city life - but history suggests that cities generally adapt to disease. It is more likely that the urban adaptation to the virus will be the acceleration of trends that were already underway or in their infancy: working from home, cycle lanes, the supplanting of city-centre shopping with online retail, pressure for cities to develop their own climate emergency strategies. But who will shape these trends? And where does the power to do so lie?
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