Name: Will Covid-19 change cities? 6 Minute English
Uploaded: 2020-08-22T13:06:45.000Z
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Hello. This is 6 Minute English from BBC Learning

disease and pandemics have changed the way

cities have been built. For example, buildings

in 19th century Paris were designed with large,

high-up windows to allow plenty of sunlight.

of taxi horns and traffic. And with no car

pollution you could even see the stars at

In this programme we'll be asking if cities

after lockdown will ever be the same again

We'll be hearing some ideas from different

vocabulary along the way. One of the cities

most affected by Covid-19 was Mumbai in India

I know Mumbai is an international mega-city

Take tuberculosis. Unlike cholera, which was

eliminated in London by re-designing the sewage

It became a real problem with the rise of

the industrial cities, the metropolis, before

One in seven people on the planet had TB,

but in dense cities like Paris, it was one

in three. Closely packed tenements meant the

disease spread like wildfire and architects

by redesigning cities to improve hygiene,

like the waste water sewers in 19th century

London. But the problem with tuberculosis,

or TB for short, was that the disease is airborne

antibiotics – medicines like penicillin that

can destroy harmful bacteria or stop their

growth – was not discovered until 1928 –

New York, Paris and other cities during the

Diseases like TB killed more and more people

as cities industrialised and grew bigger and

most important city in a country or region.

Even today disease is shaping our cities.

services available within a fifteen minute

Other countries want to build better, more

affordable housing outside the city centre.

Dr Vaidehi Tandel this won't work – even

if the housing on offer is better. But why?

When you shift them out, you're moving them

not going to be able to sustain themselves

because their jobs are in the city and they

Dr Vaidehi Tandel there, talking on the BBC

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Will Covid-19 change cities? 6 Minute English

eliminate

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vocabulary

hygiene