Category: Covid Urban Environment (page 2)

Andy Yates on how COVID-19 has disrupted many aspects of city living, exposing vulnerabilities to public health, the economy, and in governance.

Shweta Gandhi writes on how the post-COVID era has generated the driving force to make 15-minute neighbourhoods a form of planning, a rational possibility and a plausible strategy.

Richard Darby and Tom Darby write on the impact of COVID-19 on urban office environments.

Professor Tim Dixon on the impact of COVID-19 on cities throughout the world.

Dr Patrícia Canelas and Dr Idalina Baptista write on the opportunity COVID-19 provides to rethink the neighbourhood as an appropriate scale for addressing urban quality of life problems.

Ben Bolgar writes on whether we can use the current pandemic as a catalyst to address the longer-term silent killer of climate change, while engendering healthier behaviour in the short term, then we will avoid a knee-jerk reaction, and future-proof our response for the next generation.

Tom Jefferson and Carl Heneghan write on the fever hospitals of the 19th and 20th centuries.

Tom Jefferson and Carl Heneghan write on how the Roman Legionary fortress at Inchtuthil near Perth in Scotland can give us clues as to how we could develop our hospital facilities in the future.

Tom Jefferson and Carl Heneghan write on the practice of quarantine in the 14th century.

Carl Heneghan and David Howard on how the role of a city and its environment can support or damage health.