454- War, Famine, Pestilence, and Design

99% Invisible

• Episode: 454- War, Famine, Pestilence, and Design
• Website: 99% Invisible
• Feed URL: http://feeds.99percentinvisible.org/99percentinvisible
• Duration: 00:31:38
• Published: 2021-08-11 00:49

When Roman Mars and Kurt Kohlstedt were promoting The 99% Invisible City in late 2020, one question came up over and over again in conversations and interviews about our built environment: in what ways will the COVID pandemic change cities long term? Realistically, it's hard to answer a question about the future while in the midst of a crisis, but we can look to and extrapolate from precedents, like: designs born out of past disasters.

War, Famine, Pestilence, and Design