How Atlanta Is Blazing the Trail of 15-Minute Cities
Covid-19 has spurred demand for nearby amenities to serve the rise in at-home suburban workers.
We’re going to need more places for coffee meet-ups in the suburbs.
Photographer: Sean Gallup/Getty Images
For the past year, remote working has mainly been about perfecting our home setup, existing apart from the office-towers and empty streets of central business districts like Midtown Manhattan. That's how we've envisioned working from home, because that's been our experience up until now.
What's been harder to imagine is what remote working will look like when there are no more shutdowns and the threat of Covid-19 has largely lifted from a vaccinated population. I've already started to notice new behaviors in my own life in suburban Atlanta, which is farther along in the reopening process than the urban northeast or west coast is. People aren't heading in droves back to the old high-rise yet, but they're meeting face-to-face again, going to the gym and dining out.