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Time capsules

Posted on Friday 2 June 2023 by Max Nathan

London, April 2020.New/old paper news: I’m very happy to have the lead article in this Urban Studies special issue on COVID-19 and cities. It’s open access!Many thanks to Scott Orford, Yingling Fan and Phil Hubbard for having me.This article is a time …

Cities, covid19, economic-development, urban planning, urbanism

The City and the Virus, redux

Posted on Tuesday 4 January 2022 by Max Nathan

The City and the Virus, reduxI’ve got a new paper on COVID-19 and cities published in Urban Studies. You can read the whole thing here: it’s open access.I say new — it’s actually an extensive update and rebuild of this long blogpost I did in 2020. Not …

Cities, covid19, Pandemic, urban planning, urbanism

The deactivated city?

Posted on Monday 14 June 2021 by Max Nathan

The lovely people at the KooZA/rch platform have published an interview with me, on the theme of the ‘deactivated city’: how COVID-19 has altered urban form and processes, and how far these changes might stick around.They’ve also added some superb phot…

Cities, covid19, economics, urban planning, urbanism

The city and the virus

Posted on Thursday 14 May 2020 by Max Nathan

Cities are the epicentres of the coronavirus pandemic. Why?Continue reading on Medium »

Cities, coronavirus, covid19, economics, urban planning