Nighttime recovery & resilience (EN)

Cultural, community, and economic activity at night is essential to a city’s vibrancy and productivity and supports numerous local and international industries. But the COVID-19 pandemic has thrown nighttime economies and cultures into uncertainty across the globe. In many cities, clubs, venues, and other gathering spaces will likely be the last to re-open, making nighttime cultural economies highly vulnerable. As we begin to shift from lockdown to reopenings, we must re-envision how urban systems coexist with the ongoing threat of COVID-19 – and those systems must extend into the night.