Will Covid-19 change our cities?

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Buildings in the Parisian suburbs. (Illustrative image) PHILIPPE LOPEZ / AFP

By: Anne-Cécile Bras Follow

Too many people, not enough green spaces, suffocating housing, unsuitable transport and difficulties to get supplies ... While in 2030, our world should have more than 750 cities of more than a million inhabitants, the city raises questions.

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What is the right size? What facilities are necessary to live well together despite the demographic explosion, particularly in Africa? How to anticipate future systemic crises? The ecological transition? Climate change? 

Guest: Thierry Paquot , philosopher and urban planner, author of  Measure and excessiveness of cities,  published by CNRS.

Reports in Kampala by Charlotte Cosset and in San Francisco.

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