Nightlife will need to be different
CBC has a rather flaccid piece about the future of nightlife featuring an interview with one professor. Of course the city needs to operate into the night because of shift workers, but that’s not what people usually mean by nightlife. The rest of the ideas here – spreading things out in space and time – seems to come from someone who forgets what it was like to be out in crowded places with other people under 30.
JaneyB 12:07 on 2020-08-02 Permalink
Over the past few months, I’ve been struck more than once by how oblivious many middle-aged and older people are about how the more sociable, more urban, less married, and unlawned people live. It’s like they can’t even imagine it lol. Some have blithely bandied ideas of 1-2 year semi-lockdowns etc. I get that we’re in a crisis, will be for a while, and things can’t be normal but really, how hard is it to remember that 50% of people in this city live alone or in yardless situations or that tens of thousands are looking for a mate? Likewise, that people go to university in large part to meet new people and partners, not simply to receive information transmission. It would be nice even just to hear those losses lamented from some of our pandemic planners and pundits once in a while.