NYU Urban Initiative co-director Thomas Sugrue has edited Crisis Cities, a public symposium on the 2020 crises and their impact on urban life, a partnership of the NYU Cities Collaborative and Public Books. In his introduction to the series, Sugrue writes, Just as COVID-19 is particularly dangerous to populations with preexisting conditions, the virus has ferociously swept through urban areas because of their preexisting social conditions: the precarity of work; the unaffordability of housing; the depth of racial,
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