COMMENT: The pandemic has transformed the way we live, attend school and do our work, and our cities must change accordingly.
Urban planners can take this opportunity to rethink their cities.
Second, whether in a commercial block or residential block, neighbourhoods should embrace multifunctional uses, especially on their ground floors, to reduce people’s travel times to buy basic items such as food, groceries and other essentials. How about suggesting to your landlord that a kiosk is set up on the ground floor instead of another office or a flat?
Fourth, we need to decentralise services by ensuring that zoning allows schools, healthcare centres and supermarkets to be well distributed and in walking or cycling distance within a neighbourhood.
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