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The COVID-19 Pandemic and Changes in Urban Dynamics: Planning for Future Urban Resilience for Healthier and Safer Life
Abstract
The novel coronavirus (SARS-COV-2) has spread in cities and communities around the world and the story of COVID-19 pandemic in many global cities has so far been very different. Cities and urban areas are on the frontline of the unfolding COVID-19 pandemic across the world. Historically pandemics and diseases shape cities and urban forms. Emerging from Hubei Province in the city of Wuhan-China, the COVID-19 disease has affected not only public health but also water, transport, sanitation, waste management, food and other urban. This pandemic created major changes in the existing urban systems. This present research focuses on the major changes in the dynamics of urban systems worldwide due to the spared of coronavirus and associated COVID-19 pandemic. The coronavirus pandemic has been a wake-up call for cities around the world to rethink urban planning with health security as a top priority. Cities have adapted to and overcome far worse disease outbreaks than this one over the centuries, by adopting public health practices in massive scale. The response of cities to COVID-19 should involve an expansion of the Healthy City and should include inclusive urban socio-economic development policies.
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