Towards building resilient cities to pandemics: A review of COVID-19 literature

Amirzadeh, Melika; Sobhaninia, Saeideh; Buckman, Stephen; Sharifi, Ayyoob

doi:10.1016/j.scs.2022.104326

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“…Comprehensive evaluations are essential for understanding real-time impacts and fostering adoption across diverse environments. Another study by Melika Amirzadeh et al [ 42 ] emphasizes the importance of architects and urban planners in enhancing urban resilience against pandemics, focusing on pandemic-resilient homes. Key criteria for pandemic-resilient homes include multifamily housing with private natural environments, touchless technological equipment, antibacterial surfaces, proper ventilation, and adaptive interior layouts.…”

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Evaluating the resilience of residential buildings during a pandemic with a sustainable construction approach

Heydari,

Abbasianjahromi

2024

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Section: Background Literaturementioning

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Evaluating the resilience of residential buildings during a pandemic with a sustainable construction approach

Heydari,

Abbasianjahromi

2024

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“…In addition, in recent years, many studies ( 23 , 24 ) have indirectly conducted a comprehensive assessment of MPHPP by evaluating “urban resilience,” which refers to an urban’s ability to withstand and recover from the impacts of an epidemic. Chen et al ( 25 ) proposed an Urban Resilience Evaluation Index (UREI) via the spatiotemporal analysis of urban in the Yangtze River Delta region of China, which includes four dimensions: (i) Economy, (ii) Ecology, (iii) Infrastructure, and (iv) Social system.…”

Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

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Evaluating the metropolitan public health preparedness for pandemics using entropy-TOPSIS-IF

Liu,

et al. 2024

Front. Public Health

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IntroductionMetropolitan governance’s efficacy is regularly gauged by its capability for public health preparedness, a critical component, particularly in the post-pandemic climate, as global cities reassess their mitigation abilities. This process has broader implications, curbing mortality rates and amplifying sustainability. Current methodologies for preparedness assessment lean primarily on either Subjective Evaluation-Based Assessment (SBA), predicated on experts’ input on various capacity indicators, or they opt for Data-Based quantitative Assessments (DBA), chiefly utilizing public statistic data.MethodsThe manuscript discusses an urgent need for integrating both SBA and DBA to adequately measure Metropolitan Public Health Pandemics Preparedness (MPHPP), thus proposing a novel entropy-TOPSIS-IF model for comprehensive evaluation of MPHPP. Within this proposed model, experts’ subjective communication is transformed into quantitative data via the aggregation of fuzzy decisions, while objective data is collected from public statistics sites. Shannon’s entropy and TOPSIS methods are enacted on these data sets to ascertain the optimal performer after normalization and data isotropy.Results and discussionThe core contribution of the entropy-TOPSIS-IF model lies in its assessment flexibility, making it universally applicable across various contexts, regardless of the availability of expert decisions or quantitative data. To illustrate the efficacy of the entropy-TOPSIS-IF model, a numerical application is presented, examining three Chinese metropolises through chosen criteria according to the evaluations of three experts. A sensitivity analysis is provided to further affirm the stability and robustness of the suggested MPHPP evaluation model.

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“…The COVID-19 pandemic caused significant social, organizational, and economic damage to almost all urban subsystems [ 44 , 45 ]. Building a pandemic-resilient city thus becomes an urgent need for urban planning and governance in the post-pandemic era.…”

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“…Building a pandemic-resilient city thus becomes an urgent need for urban planning and governance in the post-pandemic era. Enhancing city resilience to the pandemic should not only meet the pandemic-related health requirements [ 44 ] but also require a better understanding of the resilience differences of various urban subsystems.…”

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Urban resilience to socioeconomic disruptions during the COVID-19 pandemic: Evidence from China

Yuan

2023

International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction

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Towards building resilient cities to pandemics: A review of COVID-19 literature

Cited by 55 publications

References 114 publications

Evaluating the resilience of residential buildings during a pandemic with a sustainable construction approach

Evaluating the resilience of residential buildings during a pandemic with a sustainable construction approach

Evaluating the metropolitan public health preparedness for pandemics using entropy-TOPSIS-IF

Urban resilience to socioeconomic disruptions during the COVID-19 pandemic: Evidence from China

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