Recovery from the COVID-19 crisis—and the related disruptions in how people live, work, and play—will have major impacts for the American city, with a "reordering" of economic energy shifting to emerging cities like Nashville, Denver, Raleigh, Tampa, and Orlando.
In a recent podcast discussion with CBRE, professor Joel Kotkin, author of "The Human City, " noted that while these migration patterns were already underway pre-COVID, the pandemic accelerated the trend and will bring about a rapid shift in migration patterns.
New York "will change somewhat," Kotkin said, with growth likely being less than Michael Bloomberg's predictions of 10 million residents within the city's limits. But departures from cities like New York, San Francisco, Chicago, and Boston have "already been happening," Kotkin said.
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