The Future of U.S. Cities

How the pandemic will change America

How the pandemic will alter American cities. Steve Levine, an Editor-at-Large at Medium, analyzes the future of American cities during and after the toll of the pandemic.

The hope in U.S. cities is that Covid-19 and the economic downturn will end with another delirious release — a rash of buying by exultant consumers, a new economic boom, and a return to work. They might. Certainly the passing of the pandemic, along with social distancing, will elicit enormous relief along with parties galore. Pent…