Geographies of infections: Built environment and COVID-19 pandemic in metropolitan Melbourne

E Gaisie, NY Oppong-Yeboah, PB Cobbinah - Sustainable cities and …, 2022 - Elsevier
This paper uses spatial statistical techniques to reflect on geographies of COVID-19
infections in metropolitan Melbourne. We argue that the evolution of the COVID-19 …

The nature of cities and the Covid-19 pandemic

KY Lai, C Webster, S Kumari, C Sarkar - Current Opinion in Environmental …, 2020 - Elsevier
Cities and population health are intrinsically interlinked [1, 2]. Historically cities have
systematically metamorphosed in response to threats posed to health and other kinds of …

On the relationships between COVID-19 and extended urbanization

C Connolly, SH Ali, R Keil - Dialogues in human geography, 2020 - journals.sagepub.com
This commentary focuses on the relationship between extensive forms of urbanization and
emerging infectious disease, using empirical examples from the COVID-19 pandemic …

Critical Commentary: The city and the virus

M Nathan - Urban Studies, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
Cities around the world are the epicentres of the coronavirus pandemic: both in the first
wave, as the disease spread from East Asia, and now, as many countries enter a third wave …

Spatialising urban health vulnerability: An analysis of NYC's critical infrastructure during COVID-19

G Kawlra, K Sakamoto - Urban Studies, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
This paper examines how fragmentation of critical infrastructure impacts the spread of the
coronavirus outbreak in New York City at the neighbourhood level. The location of …

City as the core of contagion? Repositioning COVID-19 at the social and spatial periphery of urban society

S Biglieri, L De Vidovich, R Keil - Cities & Health, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
ABSTRACT COVID-19 proliferates in extended forms of urbanization. Traditionally a
metaphor of escape, the global suburb has become the epicentre of zoonotic transmission …

The pandemic city: Urban issues in the time of COVID-19

L Martínez, JR Short - Sustainability, 2021 - mdpi.com
Pandemics have shaped the way cities are planned and configured. Throughout history,
cities have evolved to solve problems of sanitation, hygiene, and health access while …

[HTML][HTML] Relationships between building attributes and COVID-19 infection in London

H Tong, M Li, J Kang - Building and Environment, 2022 - Elsevier
In the UK, all domestic COVID-19 restrictions have been removed since they were
introduced in March 2020. After illustrating the spatial-temporal variations in COVID-19 …

COVID-19 in Toronto: A spatial exploratory analysis

E Vaz - Sustainability, 2021 - mdpi.com
COVID-19 has had a significant impact on a global scale. Evident signs of spatial-explicit
characteristics have been noted. Nevertheless, publicly available data are scarce, impeding …

Spread of COVID-19 in urban neighbourhoods and slums of the developing world

A Sahasranaman, HJ Jensen - Journal of the Royal …, 2021 - royalsocietypublishing.org
We study the spread of COVID-19 across neighbourhoods of cities in the developing world
and find that small numbers of neighbourhoods account for a majority of cases (k-index …