I’ve been thinking a lot about the post-pandemic recovery of cities and transit. A successful RTO by Amazon and other employers will undoubtedly provide a short-term boost to downtown life and transit ridership. But it would be foolish for cities to hang their hat on RTO mandates. A hybrid world is our most likely future state. If the pandemic made anything egregiously obvious, it’s that American cities were just built wrong.

Source: New York Times February 25, 2023 20:45 UTC