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World Business Report: First broadcast 24/12/2020 22:32 GMT : How will Covid change our cities?

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How will Covid change our cities?

First broadcast 24/12/2020 22:32 GMT 

First broadcast 24/12/2020 22:32 GMT : How will Covid change our cities?

BBC World Service - World Business Report, How will Covid change our cities?

We take a look at the long term impact of coronavirus on cities around the world.

This year has seen our cities coming under pressure as they struggled to withstand the impact of the coronavirus. City centres were deserted as shops shut and people stayed away. But in some city streets there was a new community spirit as people faced the pandemic together and supported neighbours they'd never met before. In this programme, Tamasin Ford investigates what the future could be for our cities, and asks how they need to change if they are to survive, and even flourish. We hear from architect Siri Zanelli; the mayor of Bristol in the south-west of England, Marvin Rees; transport planner Susan Claris; Singapore-based Lauren Sorkin, the head of the Resilient Cities network; Liu Qian of Greenpeace in Beijing, and Rosamund Kissi-Debrah who has been a campaigner for better air quality since the death of her daughter from asthma in 2013. And we have a report from Anna Holligan in Amsterdam on how its citizens feel about getting their city back. (Image: Mumbai skyline in lockdown March 2020. Getty Images.)

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