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The Future of the City after COVID-19: Digitionalization, Preventism and Environmentalism

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  • Julia M. Puaschunder

    (The New School,Department of Economics,USA)

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Ever since, metropolitan areas have seen a resurgence of the city as a hub for exchange of ideas, social transformation and innovation. Since the ages of industrialization and globalization, cities flourished in terms of economic growth and societal advancement. The 2020 COVID-19 crisis may set an end to this. Some of the major cities and foremost Western world metropolis began to empty out with the rapid rise of an infected city population due to social transfer of the pandemic and worsened diseases outcomes in a constraint medical system in high density areas. Even if the COVID-19 will be defeated with a vaccine or overcome with herd immunity during the coming years, the economy of large cities may be permanently changed given an ongoing digitalization trends, preventive medical care attention and environmental concerns in the wake of climate change. This paper envisions these three new trends of globalization shifting cityscaping to digitalization, focus on preventive medical care and environmental conscientiousness in future cities.

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  • Julia M. Puaschunder, 2020. "The Future of the City after COVID-19: Digitionalization, Preventism and Environmentalism," ConScienS Conference Proceedings 020jpm, Research Association for Interdisciplinary Studies.
    • Handle: RePEc:smo:conswp:020jpm
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    cities; Coronavirus; COVID-19; digitalization; economic growth theory; healthcare; human capital; inequality; innovation; international development;
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