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1. We’ve been here before. One of the most ruthlessly effective plagues ever, the veritable Tom Brady
of plagues, the Spanish flu of 1918-19 decimated population worldwide. After Martin Luther King
was killed in 1968, the ensuing riots made 2020 disturbances resemble a thumb-wresting match. Cities have always bounced back. People around
the world enjoy the urban “good life” including the character of historic districts, the vitality of nearby sports, restaurants and entertainment, amenities like bike paths, and places where people can socialize, innovate and do business. When it is safe, they will come back. For all of downtown Denver’s current woes, residential real estate remains strong in most of the city. People are voting with their pocketbooks showing faith in the future. Meanwhile the suburbs also boom. Let’s design and build them better.
2. Crises, whether they be of public health or social unrest, usually lead to innovation. Cholera epidemics caused Paris and London to invent “marvelous”
(not my word) sewage systems and lovely, spacious boulevards. The BLM uproar allows us to pause
and consider how reinvestment can benefit more communities without displacement.
3. Our region and state could be a winner regardless. The new workplace mobility allows talented workers to leave the coasts. They will bring new resources while amplifying our challenges. It will be imperative for our community to address such simmering issues
The author (pictured-page 46) thinks things will turn out better than this for cities, towns and other urban developments.
as mobility, air quality, affordable housing, climate change and social equity.
4. As Kelly Brough, head of the Metro Denver Chamber, said at a ULI forum in April. “Our job is to be optimistic, but not Pollyannish. Our world is changing and we have learned lessons and are prepared. When we work together we do a way better job of finding the right answer and solution.”
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