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作者

Reza Banai

来源

CITIES,Vol.106,Issue1,Article 102929

语言

英文

关键字

Cities;Regions;Pandemic;Coronavirus;Climate change;Public health;Public realm;Urban system;Resilience;Sustainability;Urban form;Comprehensive plan

作者单位

Professor of City and Regional Planning, School of Urban Affairs and Public Policy, University of Memphis, 217 McCord Hall, Memphis, TN 38152, USA;Professor of City and Regional Planning, School of Urban Affairs and Public Policy, University of Memphis, 217 McCord Hall, Memphis, TN 38152, USA

摘要

The emergence of the coronavirus pandemic motivated this paper, which revisits the nexus of public health and the city, itself a main source of a pandemic which similarly threatens the lives and properties of the world population gradually one glacier at a time: climate change. We argue that pandemics expose both the vulnerability and resilience of the urban system expansively, from rooftop to the region, but also serve as change agents for the planning of resilient cities and regions globally. The discussion of the urban system and the pandemic is comparative, with the recent coronavirus and climate change, a persistent, long-lasting pandemic. The historical and critical review and synthesis of the durable concepts of the urban system at the kernel of the theories and practices of urbanism is highlighted by place matters, cyberspace, density, access, and the city-region. We note the implications for reconfiguring the resilient urban system of the future effectively with pandemic as change agent and the comprehensive plan and its regulatory zoning ordinance as implementation tool.