Pandemic Urbanism

Author : S. Harris Ali,Creighton Connolly,Roger Keil
Publisher : Polity
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2023-02-13
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1509549838

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Emerging infectious disease outbreaks in recent decades have transformed the very nature of urban life worldwide, even as the extent and experience of pandemics are shaped by the planetary urban condition. Pandemic Urbanism critically investigates these relationships in a world faced with an unprecedented global pandemic, the first on a majority urban planet. The authors reveal the historical context of recent infectious disease events and how they have variously transformed the urban social fabric. They highlight the important role played by socio-ecological processes associated with the global urban periphery – suburban or post-suburban zones and hinterland areas of ""extended"" urbanization – bringing to light the increased significance of social media, changing mobility patterns, and new forms of urban governance and pandemic response. The book takes forward theoretical approaches to understanding pandemics grounded in urban political ecologies of disease and landscape political ecology, developing novel insights for post-pandemic urban governance and planning. In doing so, it reveals a paradox at the heart of pandemic urbanism: our urban way of life at close quarters enables contagion to spread easily, yet it also makes it easier to contain and respond to disease outbreaks. Multidisciplinary in its approach and written by three proven experts in the field, this book is an invaluable, accessible primer on the origins, pathways, and management of infectious disease.

Author : S. Harris Ali,Creighton Connolly,Roger Keil
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2022-12-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781509549856

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Pandemic Urbanism by S. Harris Ali,Creighton Connolly,Roger Keil Pdf

Emerging infectious disease outbreaks have transformed the very nature of urban life worldwide, even as the extent and experience of pandemics are shaped by the planetary urban condition. Pandemic Urbanism critically investigates these relationships in a world faced with its first pandemic on a majority urban planet. The authors reveal the social and historical context of recent infectious disease events and how they have variously transformed the urban fabric. They highlight the important role played by socio-ecological processes associated with the global urban periphery – suburban or post-suburban zones and hinterland areas of “extended” urbanization – changing mobility patterns, and new forms of urban governance and pandemic response. The book develops novel insights for post-pandemic urban governance and planning grounded in the quest for social and spatial justice. In doing so, it reveals a paradox at the heart of pandemic urbanism: urban life enables contagion to spread easily, yet at the same time offers unique possibilities to contain and respond to disease outbreaks. Multidisciplinary in approach and written by experts in the field, this book is an invaluable primer on the origins, pathways, and management of infectious disease.

Author : Mohammad Gharipour,Caitlin DeClercq
Publisher : Intellect (UK)
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2021-12-17
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1789384672

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Epidemic Urbanism by Mohammad Gharipour,Caitlin DeClercq Pdf

Thirty-six interdisciplinary essays analyze the mutual relationship between historical epidemics and the built environment. Epidemic illnesses--not only a product of biology, but also social and cultural phenomena--are as old as cities themselves. The outbreak of COVID-19 in late 2019 brought the effects of epidemic illness on urban life into sharp focus, exposing the vulnerabilities of the societies it ravages as much as the bodies it infects. How might insights from the outbreak and responses to previous urban epidemics inform our understanding of the current world? With these questions in mind, Epidemic Urbanism gathers scholarship from a range of disciplines--including history, public health, sociology, anthropology, and medicine--to present historical case studies from across the globe, each demonstrating how cities are not just the primary place of exposure and quarantine, but also the site and instrument of intervention. They also demonstrate how epidemic illnesses, and responses to them, exploit and amplify social inequality in the communities they touch. Illustrated with more than 150 historical images, the essays illuminate the profound, complex ways epidemics have shaped the world around us and convey this information in a way that meaningfully engages a public readership.

Author : Ali Cheshmehzangi,Maycon Sedrez,Hang Zhao,Tian Li,Tim Heath,Ayotunde Dawodu
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2024-02-07
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9789819986729

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Resilience vs Pandemics by Ali Cheshmehzangi,Maycon Sedrez,Hang Zhao,Tian Li,Tim Heath,Ayotunde Dawodu Pdf

“Resilience vs Pandemics: Innovations in Public Places and Buildings” explores innovative solutions for architecture and public places during and after the pandemic. Additionally, the authors contribute to the documentation of architectural and social transformations that have been prompted by previous transmissible diseases, as this knowledge can inform responses to future pandemics. In this volume, the chapters present critical, exploratory, multi- and interdisciplinary, and cutting-edge research approaches; with a particular focus on the effects of COVID-19 and other highly transmissible diseases on the design, use, performance, and perception of the built environment, particularly at the building scale. This volume aims to organize a collection of scientific studies, reviews, analysis, recommendations, and solutions in the fields of urban design, architecture, design, landscape design, etc. The overarching goal is to document new approaches to create and enhance built environment resilience. Chapters shed light on novel methods, tools, processes, regulations, behaviours, and other relevant details contributing to a comprehensive understanding of this crucial issue. The two scales of the built environment under consideration are: (1) Public Places, including research on transformations (death, emergencies, changes), requirements, adaptability, usability, virtual immersion, historical perspectives, interactivity, shifts in use and programs, etc. (2) Buildings, including regulations, shifts in use and program, non-pharmaceutical interventions, human interactions, and human-machine interfaces. The book covers a wide range of studies, including physical and non-physical studies, which may refer to the city infrastructure, green/blue spaces, housing, policy-making, health services, social and economic issues, etc. The findings and results of various global case study examples contribute to the decision-making of governments, organizations, and institutions, as well as inspire scholars and future research for developing resilience in the post-pandemic era.

Author : Doris Kleilein,Friederike Meyer
Publisher : Jovis Verlag
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2021-10-25
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 3868597107

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Post-pandemic Urbanism by Doris Kleilein,Friederike Meyer Pdf

Working from home,online shopping, undertourism: the disruptive upheavals caused by theCOVID-19 pandemic challenge architecture and urban planning. New spacesfor action are opening up, but are they being utilized? From dividingtraffic space fairly to urban food policies, from new places for workand recreation to the question on how communities can be orientedtowards the common good: Post-pandemic Urbanism envisions anear future and discusses how cities and their transformative power canhelp to handle this current crisis and those to come.

Author : Raffaele Pernice
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2022-03-17
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781000539486

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The Urbanism of Metabolism by Raffaele Pernice Pdf

This edited book explores and promotes reflection on how the lessons of Metabolism experience can inform current debate on city making and future practice in architectural design and urban planning. More than sixty years after the Metabolist manifesto was published, the author’s original contributions highlight the persistent links between present and past that can help to re-imagine new urban futures as well as the design of innovative intra-urban relationships and spaces. The essays are written by experienced scholars and renowned academics from Japan, Australia, Europe, South Korea and the United States and expose Metabolism’s special merits in promoting new urban models and evaluate the current legacy of its architectural projects and urban design lessons. They offer a critical, intellectual, and up-to-date account of the Metabolism projects and ideas with regard to the current evolution of architectural and urbanism discourse in a global context. The collection of cross-disciplinary contributions in this volume will be of great interest to architects, architectural and urban historians, as well as academics, scholars and students in built environment disciplines and Japanese cultural studies.

Author : Yizhao Yang,Anne Taufen
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 942 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2022-03-17
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781000532494

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The Routledge Handbook of Sustainable Cities and Landscapes in the Pacific Rim by Yizhao Yang,Anne Taufen Pdf

This handbook addresses a growing list of challenges faced by regions and cities in the Pacific Rim, drawing connections around the what, why, and how questions that are fundamental to sustainable development policies and planning practices. These include the connection between cities and surrounding landscapes, across different boundaries and scales; the persistence of environmental and development inequities; and the growing impacts of global climate change, including how physical conditions and social implications are being anticipated and addressed. Building upon localized knowledge and contextualized experiences, this edited collection brings attention to place-based approaches across the Pacific Rim and makes an important contribution to the scholarly and practical understanding of sustainable urban development models that have mostly emerged out of the Western experiences. Nine sections, each grounded in research, dialogue, and collaboration with practical examples and analysis, focus on a theme or dimension that carries critical impacts on a holistic vision of city-landscape development, such as resilient communities, ecosystem services and biodiversity, energy, water, health, and planning and engagement. This international edited collection will appeal to academics and students engaged in research involving landscape architecture, architecture, planning, public policy, law, urban studies, geography, environmental science, and area studies. It also informs policy makers, professionals, and advocates of actionable knowledge and adoptable ideas by connecting those issues with the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) of the United Nations. The collection of writings presented in this book speaks to multiyear collaboration of scholars through the APRU Sustainable Cities and Landscapes (SCL) Program and its global network, facilitated by SCL Annual Conferences and involving more than 100 contributors from more than 30 institutions. The Open Access version of chapters 1, 2, 4, 11, 17, 23, 30, 37, 42, 49, and 56 of this book, available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/e/9781003033530, have been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.

Author : Carlos Nunes Silva
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 799 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2022-05-03
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783030911126

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Local Government and the COVID-19 Pandemic by Carlos Nunes Silva Pdf

The book provides a global perspective of local government response towards the COVID-19 pandemic through the analysis of a sample of countries in all continents. It examines the responses of local government, as well as the responses local government developed in articulation with other tiers of government and with civil society organizations, and explores the social, economic and policy impacts of the pandemic. The book offers an innovative contribution on the role of local government during the pandemic and discusses lessons for the future. The COVID-19 pandemic had a global impact on public health, in the well-being of citizens, in the economy, on civic life, in the provision of public services, and in the governance of cities and other human settlements, although in an uneven form across countries, cities and local communities. Cities and local governments have been acting decisively to apply the policy measures defined at national level to the specific local conditions. COVID-19 has exposed the inadequacy of the crisis response infrastructures and policies at both national and local levels in these countries as well as in many others across the world. But it also exposed much broader and deeper weaknesses that result from how societies are organized, namely the insecure life a substantial proportion of citizens have, as a result of economic and social policies followed in previous decades, which accentuated the impacts of the lockdown measures on employment, income, housing, among a myriad of other social dimensions. Besides the analysis of how governments, and local government, responded to the public health issues raised by the spread of the virus, the book deals also with the diversity of responses local governments have adopted and implemented in the countries, regions, cities and metropolitan areas. The analysis of these policy responses indicates that previously unthinkable policies can surprisingly be implemented at both national and local levels.

Author : Alessandra Battisti
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 473 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2024-06-16
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783031494956

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Greening Our Cities: Sustainable Urbanism for a Greener Future by Alessandra Battisti Pdf

Author : Quentin Stevens,Kim Dovey
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 154 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2022-09-06
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781000638431

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Temporary and Tactical Urbanism by Quentin Stevens,Kim Dovey Pdf

Temporary and Tactical Urbanism examines a key set of urban design strategies that have emerged in the twenty-first century. Such projects range from guerrilla gardens and bike lanes to more formalised temporary beaches and swimming pools, parklets, pop-up plazas and buildings and container towns. These practices enable diverse forms of economic, social and artistic life that are usually repressed by the fixities of urban form and its management. This book takes a thematic approach to explore what the scope of this practice is, and understand why it has risen to prominence, how it works, who is involved, and what its implications are for the future of city design and planning. It critically examines the material, social, economic and political complexities that surround and enable these small, ephemeral urban interventions. It identifies their short-term and long-term implications for urban intensity, diversity, creativity and adaptability. The book's insights into temporary and tactical urbanism have particular relevance in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic, which has highlighted both the need and the possibility of quickly transforming urban spaces worldwide. They also reveal significant lessons for the long-term planning and design of buildings, landscapes and cities.

Author : Ali Cheshmehzangi
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2024-06-16
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789819990146

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City Information Modelling by Ali Cheshmehzangi Pdf

Author : Mohammad Gharipour,Caitlin DeClercq
Publisher : Intellect (UK)
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2021-12-19
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1789384702

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Epidemic Urbanism by Mohammad Gharipour,Caitlin DeClercq Pdf

Thirty-six interdisciplinary essays analyze the mutual relationship between historical epidemics and the built environment. Epidemic illnesses--not only a product of biology, but also social and cultural phenomena--are as old as cities themselves. The outbreak of COVID-19 in late 2019 brought the effects of epidemic illness on urban life into sharp focus, exposing the vulnerabilities of the societies it ravages as much as the bodies it infects. How might insights from the outbreak and responses to previous urban epidemics inform our understanding of the current world? With these questions in mind, Epidemic Urbanism gathers scholarship from a range of disciplines--including history, public health, sociology, anthropology, and medicine--to present historical case studies from across the globe, each demonstrating how cities are not just the primary place of exposure and quarantine, but also the site and instrument of intervention. They also demonstrate how epidemic illnesses, and responses to them, exploit and amplify social inequality in the communities they touch. Illustrated with more than 150 historical images, the essays illuminate the profound, complex ways epidemics have shaped the world around us and convey this information in a way that meaningfully engages a public readership.

Author : Enza Lissandrello,Janni Sørensen,Kristian Olesen,Rasmus Nedergård Steffansen
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2023-07-17
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783031326646

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The ‘New Normal’ in Planning, Governance and Participation by Enza Lissandrello,Janni Sørensen,Kristian Olesen,Rasmus Nedergård Steffansen Pdf

This book offers a unique and timely contribution, informed by responses to the COVID-19 pandemic, to unpack the intertwined challenges that planning needs to cope with in the future. It argues that the pandemic and post-pandemic periods, in their successive waves of restrictions and social distancing, have disrupted ‘normal’ practices but have also contributed to shaping a ‘new normal’. The new normal is emerging, re-configuring, and prioritizing the substantive objects of planning and its governance and participatory processes. This book discusses this shift and presents a collection of episodes and cases from diverse European urban contexts to develop a new vocabulary for describing and addressing challenges, models, perspectives, and imaginaries that contribute to defining the new normal. The book is aimed at scholars interested in urban planning, sociology, geography, anthropology, art, economy, technology studies, design studies, and political science.

Author : Philip Harrison,Alison Todes
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2024-07-10
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781040045008

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The Promise of Planning by Philip Harrison,Alison Todes Pdf

The Promise of Planning explores the experience of planning internationally since the global financial crisis, focusing on South Africa. The book is a response to a decade-plus in which state-led planning has re-emerged as a putative means for achieving developmental goals (as indicated in global initiatives such as the New Urban Agenda) and where planning in South Africa has consolidated in terms of its legal and policy basis. However, the return of planning is happening in an inauspicious context, with economic fragilities, technological shifts, political populism, institutional complexities, and more, threatening to upturn the "new promise of planning." The book provides a careful analytical account of planning in South Africa and how and why its promises have been difficult to achieve. Building on the authors’ previous book, Planning and Transformation, the book sheds light on planning as an increasingly complex and diverse governmental practice within a perpetually changing world. It can be used as a resource for planners who must make good on the new promise of planning while navigating the risks and threats of the contemporary world, as well as students and faculty interested in international planning debates and the South African case.

Author : Edmond Manahasa
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2024-06-16
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783031566073

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COVID-19 (Forced) Innovations by Edmond Manahasa Pdf