Also read: Why Hollywood studios’ romance for Bollywood has prematurely souredI called attention to two—the rise of great industrial cities like Detroit and Pittsburgh at the end of the Long Depression in the second half of the 19th century, and the wave of suburbanization that spurred economic growth after the Great Depression and World War II.
We are going through a third today, which began during the 2008 economic crisis and is being ushered into place by the Covid crisis.First, Covid-19 will not kill off cities like New York and London.