# The Pandemic and the Future City

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## Metadata
- Author: [[Paul Krugman]]
- Full Title: The Pandemic and the Future City
- Category: #articles
- URL: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/15/opinion/cities-covid-remote-work.html

## Highlights
- But these subtle advantages are, in fact, what drive the economies of modern cities — and until Covid-19 struck these advantages were feeding a growing economic divergence between large, highly educated metropolitan areas and the rest of the country. The rise of remote work may dent that trend, but it probably won’t reverse it.