A city might be best understood as a spatial concentration of households, firms and organizations of all kinds, whose activities service a wider region, and which is increasingly connected to international flows of information, goods, money and people. The COVID-19 pandemic has changed life and business in cities, but the future of cities will be as much determined by their state going into the crisis, as by the impact of the pandemic itself. 

This report contains key findings from the Oxford-Protiviti survey, which assessed the extent and nature of changes in global business leaders’ perspectives on cities and their future trajectories up to 2030.