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Pandemic Triggered Rapid Behavioural Deurbanization
- Glaeser defines cities by density and proximity and notes COVID social distancing rapidly deurbanised behaviour.
- Cellphone mobility data showed overall urban movement dropped drastically and workplace visits remain depressed.
Thucydides' Athens As A Cautionary Tale
- Glaeser recounts Thucydides' account of the Athenian plague during war and its devastating civic effects.
- He uses Athens to show how contagion's damage depends on a society's prior stability.
Infrastructure Made Cities Livable Again
- Historic public-health responses like quarantine and clean water investments made cities resilient.
- These pragmatic engineering solutions transformed governments into life-saving institutions.