New modes of communication and teaching have a lot of potential, but are also fraught. Can we hold on to this and build on momentum for and the dream of greener cities for all? We see (or can simply hear more clearly) more wildlife. There are a few key threads in this collection of 58 people from 24 countries, and many hopeful responses: How do we pick up the pieces? What pieces are even still available to us? Which pieces should we cast aside, and leave on the ash heap? All of us have had lives upended, lost opportunities, had careers and livelihoods set back or even wrecked. All of us now know people personally who have been sick many (even all?) of us know people who have died. In this prompt we intended to ask a professional question, but also a deeply personal one. So we, as we tend to do, gave a wide variety of people-artists to architects, scientists to planners-the following prompt : How do you imagine you might be changed by Covid, both professionally, but also personally as you negotiate a new post-virus “normal”? For myself, I have been wondering how we will be changed by this experience: as people with dreams, families, and styles of behavior and also as urban professionals. Now that we have seen how our cities around the world truly function at their most vulnerable, what possible excuse do we now have to not emerge solely committed to fixing it? Maybe in searching for a new post-Covid “normal”, we need to act on the idea that the old normal was a big part of the problem.Perhaps we are somewhat like ascetics in caves, contemplating a potentially perfectible life outside, somewhere else and out of reach. How do you imagine you might be changed by it, both professionally, but also personally as you negotiate a new post-virus “normal”?

Covid has upended all the normal routines in our lives and work.

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