Tuesday 29 December 2020 For hundreds of years, human beings lived, worked and played in local, intergenerational communities. That changed when industrialisation lured young people to cities, leaving their families behind. In 2020, however, we returned to the former way of living. Across the globe, Covid-19 has changed how we interact with friends, family and co-workers, basing ourselves predominantly in our homes and streets, connecting with colleagues, shops and services over the internet. In 2021 we will increasingly work and socialise in connected local communities. These groups of people will become the magnets for life’s activities, as opposed to constructed developments that require people to travel to and from segregated activities.