Digital contact tracing, community uptake, and proximity awareness technology to fight COVID-19: a systematic review

G Grekousis, Y Liu - Sustainable cities and society, 2021 - Elsevier
Digital contact tracing provides an expeditious and comprehensive way to collect and
analyze data on people's proximity, location, movement, and health status. However, this …

A review of GIS methodologies to analyze the dynamics of COVID‐19 in the second half of 2020

I Franch‐Pardo, MR Desjardins… - Transactions in …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
COVID‐19 has infected over 163 million people and has resulted in over 3.9 million deaths.
Regarding the tools and strategies to research the ongoing pandemic, spatial analysis has …

What determines urban resilience against COVID-19: City size or governance capacity?

Z Chu, M Cheng, M Song - Sustainable cities and society, 2021 - Elsevier
This study analyzed the effects of urban governance and city size on COVID-19 prevention
and control measures. Based on real-time data in 276 prefecture-level Chinese cities, we …

Are high-density districts more vulnerable to the COVID-19 pandemic?

AR Khavarian-Garmsir, A Sharifi… - Sustainable Cities and …, 2021 - Elsevier
The COVID-19 pandemic has brought questions about the desirability of compact urban
development to the fore. There are some concerns that high density may be a risk factor that …

Ranking the importance of demographic, socioeconomic, and underlying health factors on US COVID-19 deaths: A geographical random forest approach

G Grekousis, Z Feng, I Marakakis, Y Lu, R Wang - Health & Place, 2022 - Elsevier
A growing number of studies show that the uneven spatial distribution of COVID-19 deaths is
related to demographic and socioeconomic disparities across space. However, most studies …

[HTML][HTML] Adequacy of telework spaces in homes during the lockdown in Madrid, according to socioeconomic factors and home features

T Cuerdo-Vilches, MÁ Navas-Martín, S March… - Sustainable Cities and …, 2021 - Elsevier
In Spain, the COVID-19 confinement was carried out in the spring of 2020. All non-essential
activities were temporarily suspended. This brought with it the adaptation to home office …

The impact of urbanization on the delivery of public service–related SDGs in China

Z Zhao, Y Pan, J Zhu, J Wu, R Zhu - Sustainable Cities and Society, 2022 - Elsevier
China's rapid urbanization has driven economic development and social progress. As the
populations of cities and towns have increased during urbanization, demand for public …

Exploring the impact of urban features on the spatial variation of land surface temperature within the diurnal cycle

Q Wang, X Wang, Y Meng, Y Zhou, H Wang - Sustainable Cities and …, 2023 - Elsevier
Excessive heat in urban areas affects thermal comfort and livability. In order to improve local
thermal environment, correlations patterns between urban features and land surface …

[HTML][HTML] Methods used in the spatial and spatiotemporal analysis of COVID-19 epidemiology: a systematic review

N Nazia, ZA Butt, ML Bedard, WC Tang… - International Journal of …, 2022 - mdpi.com
The spread of the COVID-19 pandemic was spatially heterogeneous around the world; the
transmission of the disease is driven by complex spatial and temporal variations in …

[HTML][HTML] Spatial modeling of COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy in the United States

A Mollalo, M Tatar - International journal of environmental research and …, 2021 - mdpi.com
Vaccine hesitancy refers to delay in acceptance or refusal of vaccines despite the availability
of vaccine services. Despite the efforts of United States healthcare providers to vaccinate the …