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4. Talmon Joseph Smith, “We’ve seen New York’s white flight before,” The Atlantic, 26 August 2020, theatlantic.com/ culture/archive/2020/08/new-york-dead-to-whom/615673 (accessed 14 January 2021).
5. “The sprawling metropolis,” National Museum of American History, americanhistory.si.edu/america-on-the-move/ city-and-suburb (accessed 14 January 2021).
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7. Stephen Moss, “End of the car age: How cities are outgrowing the automobile,” The Guardian, 28 April 2015, theguardian.com/cities/2015/apr/28/end-of-the-carage-how-cities-outgrew-the-automobile (accessed 14 January 2021).
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9. Nick Lenaghan, “Let them come back to the CBD: office bosses,” The Australian Financial Review, 24 September 2020, afr.com/property/commercial/let-them-come-backto-the-cbd-office-bosses-20200924-p55yru (accessed 14 January 2021).
10. Valentina Romei and John Burn-Murdoch, “From peak city to ghost town: The urban centres hit hardest by COVID-19,” Financial Times, 15 October 2020, ft.com/ content/d5b45dba-14dc-443b-8a8c-e9e9bbc3fb9a (accessed 14 January 2021).
11. James Altucher, “New York City is dead forever,”
The New York Post, 17 August 2020, nypost.com/2020/ 08/17/nyc-is-dead-forever-heres-why-james-altucher (accessed 14 January 2021).
12. Ross Clark, “Is this the end of the line for public transport?” The Spectator, 20 August 2020, spectator.co. uk/article/is-this-the-end-of-the-line-for-publictransport(accessed 14 January 2021).
13. James Howard Kunstler and Nikos A. Salingaros,
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14. Klaus Schwab, “Now is the time for a ‘great reset,’” World Economic Forum, 3 June 2020, weforum.org/ agenda/2020/06/now-is-the-time-for-a-great-reset (accessed 14 January 2021).