How Might the COVID-19 Pandemic Affect 21st Century Urban Design, Planning, and Development?
Abstract
:1. Introduction
2. The Home
3. Public Green Space and Corridors
4. The Urban Streetscape
5. Transportation
6. Work
7. The End of New Urbanism?
8. Scenario Planning, Resilience Strategies, and Their Integration into Public Health Planning
9. Cities of the Global South: Unique Challenges and Opportunities
10. Conclusions
- Planning, promoting, funding, constructing, and maintaining public green spaces and corridors near residences to allow individuals to exercise and maintain a healthy lifestyle during times of lockdowns and restricted mobility.
- Expansion of outdoor sidewalks/walk spaces near businesses and the easing of permitting processes during pandemics to allow businesses (especially restaurants) to use these spaces for de-densified business activities.
- Implementation of increased and innovative public transportation sanitation practices to not only mitigate the spread of pandemic diseases, but to also prevent more common viruses and bacteria such as the common cold, influenza, staphylococcus, etc.
- Designing municipal and intergovernmental strategic plans for future pandemics that focus on contact tracing, mitigation strategies, patient housing, resource allocation, information provision, and intergovernmental cooperation.
Author Contributions
Funding
Conflicts of Interest
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City | Notable Mitigation Strategies |
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Auckland, New Zealand | •Business closings and lockdowns as part of central government strategy. 1 |
Berlin, Germany | •Subsidized bike sharing program. |
Chicago, USA | •Enhanced sanitation of public transportation vehicles (electrostatic sprayers, increased cleanings, ridership demand app). |
Guangzhou, China | •Passenger temperature check screenings and thermal imaging. •Outdoor socially distanced queuing for public transit. •Contact tracing. •Lockdowns as part of central government strategy. |
Houston, USA | •Slow Street program. |
Jakarta, Indonesia | •Deployment of low-cost water containers and soap dispensers. |
Kigali, Rwanda | •Sinks and handwashing stations at public locations. |
Melbourne, Australia | •Permitting of restaurant seating expansion into laneways and sidewalks to de-densify patrons. |
Milan, Italy | •Conversion of some streets into bicycle and pedestrian paths. |
New York City, USA | •Enhanced sanitation of public transportation vehicles (electrostatic sprayers, research into antimicrobial materials and cleaning strategies). |
Oakland, USA | •Repurposing/closing streets into recreational areas (Slow Street program). •Making streets more pedestrian friendly (Slow Streets: Essential Places program). |
Oslo, Norway | •Closing of schools and businesses as part of central government strategy. 2 •Restrictions on indoor recreation activities. |
San Francisco, USA | •Slow Street program. •Shared Spaces program. |
Seattle, USA | •Stay Healthy Streets program. |
Seoul, South Korea | •Advanced contact tracing, surveillance, and notification system. 3 •Mobilization of rapid testing kit production as part of strategic plans of national strategy. •Strict patient isolation as part of national strategy. |
Shenzhen, China | •Mobility restrictions. 4 •Contact tracing and isolation. |
Tokyo, Japan | •Increased teleworking. •Staggered work hours. |
Vienna, Austria | •Lockdowns as part of central government strategy. 5 •Building of temporary hospital facilities. |
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