New York faces the same fate as Venice once did
World cities symbolized full life, but now they have become epicentres of contagion: How the virus exacerbates existing problems.
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It can’t go on like this: A busy street in Manhattan before Corona.
Foto: Alexander Spatari (Getty Images)
Has Corona put an end to the megacity? The pandemic is undoubtedly changing globalization. It turns pre-2020 global economic hubs into epicentres of contagion, and it raises questions about their future. But the crisis has also simply made the existing weaknesses of the megacities visible and accelerated processes that have already been initiated.
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