Last week I explored the idea, common in urbanist circles, that the pandemic killed “downtown” in North America. As I explained, I have some problems with this ambient cliché. Downtown, after all, is a nebulous concept. For most of the 19th and 20th centuries, it was defined as a city’s central business district—that patch where the sidewalks are swarme…
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