Coronavirus tests the values of global cities like LA
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The pandemic has brought many people pain and anxiety. To Wouter Vanstiphout, a Netherlands-based professor of “design as politics,” it has also brought clarity about the weaknesses in the “shiny global city” and its culture, economy and...
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