New bonds to the local

Our relation to the local had considerably changed in the past and will continue to do so in the future. Proofs of loosening bonds are urbanization, mass immigration and the recent emergence of the home office driven by technology and Covid-19.

In the same time the importance of the local is rediscovered of reinvented. Big companies are clustering their management departments and try establish their HQ close to their business partners. Differences in life-expectancy can in the same city be as high as 20 years depending on the residential area one lives in. And there is of course the increasing popularity of locally produced food.