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Comments on: Pandemic preferences – the case of housing http://www.tvhe.co.nz/2024/03/13/pandemic-preferences-the-case-of-housing/ The Visible Hand in Economics Fri, 19 Apr 2024 09:11:02 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Anonymous http://www.tvhe.co.nz/2024/03/13/pandemic-preferences-the-case-of-housing/#comment-43861 Fri, 19 Apr 2024 09:11:02 +0000 http://www.tvhe.co.nz/?p=14715#comment-43861 Great article. This made me think of Simak’s City short stories. Particularly the first story in the series, where nuclear power, personal air travel, and instant long-distance communication killed off cities. Instead everyone lives in the equivalent of the lifestyle block.

Coming from the horrors of World War Two, Simak believed the city was an anachronism that humanity would be better without. He believed poor communication and travel were the only reasons cities persisted. Now we don’t have personal air travel yet, but communication is certainly lightyears ahead now.

Yet cities have persisted. It will be interesting to see if there is a step change here or whether COVID was just a blip.

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