COVID has disrupted our big cities, and regional planning has to catch up fast
- Written by: Jason Byrne, Professor of Human Geography and Planning, University of Tasmania
Blaine O'Neill/Flickr, CC BY-NCSince the 1950s, the world has experienced a sixfold increase in the number of people living in cities. City dwellers now outnumber rural residents globally and in many individual countries. But the COVID-19 pandemic has begun to disrupt the trajectory, scale and form of urbanisation.
Cities, by virtue of their size,...
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