The Big Issue Magazine

AWAKENING THE SLEEPING GIANT

back to our cities in the roaring 20s

As Covid-19 turns endemic, we have witnessed the ebb and flow return to occupying our metropolitan spaces with every subsequent wave, approaching work, entertainment and life anew. We take stock of what has changed in our major cities, the hives of national activity, in the two years to date since we vacated them; how we as society have changed and how audaciously we could rebuild.

March marks exactly two years since we vacated our central business districts, offices, restaurants, cinemas, sports fields and highways en masse, in response to the National State of

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