The COVID-19 pandemic has brought enormous casualties and huge losses to cities around the world,... more The COVID-19 pandemic has brought enormous casualties and huge losses to cities around the world, causing urban planning to reflect on its serious inadequacy in public health crisis management. Looking back at the pandemics of modern history, urban planning has been dedicated to enhancing disease prevention capacity as well as improving the wellness of human beings. By systematically comparing the urban planning response between COVID-19 (2019) and its predecessor H1N1 (2009) in the literature, this paper seeks to explore how urban planning theories evolved through the pandemics and whether COVID-19 has led to possible new implications and directions for urban planning in the future. A total of 3129 related results with overlapping themes of “city”, “pandemic”, and “planning” in the database were narrowed down to 30 articles published between 2009 and 2019 on the topic of H1N1 and 99 articles published between 2020 and 2022 on the topic of COVID-19 after careful extraction and integ...
Hong Kong is facing serious ageing issues due to the population’s high density and extended lifes... more Hong Kong is facing serious ageing issues due to the population’s high density and extended lifespans. The built environment characteristics of neighbourhoods are important for the older adults because they spend a significant amount of time within their neighbourhoods, and the neighbourhood environments affect their level of adaptability to ageing and quality of life. This study surveyed 180 older adults in six neighbourhoods in different districts. Land use mix, street connectivity and residents’ responses were used to quantify the environments. Time spent sitting, walking and engaging in moderate/vigorous physical activity were used to quantify physical activity behaviour. The results show that built environment characteristics such as the availability of commercial and recreational space influence the physical activity of Hong Kong’s older adults. This investigation generates some conclusions which are different with those in low-density environment observed in the Western societies.
The COVID-19 pandemic has brought enormous casualties and huge losses to cities around the world,... more The COVID-19 pandemic has brought enormous casualties and huge losses to cities around the world, causing urban planning to reflect on its serious inadequacy in public health crisis management. Looking back at the pandemics of modern history, urban planning has been dedicated to enhancing disease prevention capacity as well as improving the wellness of human beings. By systematically comparing the urban planning response between COVID-19 (2019) and its predecessor H1N1 (2009) in the literature, this paper seeks to explore how urban planning theories evolved through the pandemics and whether COVID-19 has led to possible new implications and directions for urban planning in the future. A total of 3129 related results with overlapping themes of “city”, “pandemic”, and “planning” in the database were narrowed down to 30 articles published between 2009 and 2019 on the topic of H1N1 and 99 articles published between 2020 and 2022 on the topic of COVID-19 after careful extraction and integ...
Hong Kong is facing serious ageing issues due to the population’s high density and extended lifes... more Hong Kong is facing serious ageing issues due to the population’s high density and extended lifespans. The built environment characteristics of neighbourhoods are important for the older adults because they spend a significant amount of time within their neighbourhoods, and the neighbourhood environments affect their level of adaptability to ageing and quality of life. This study surveyed 180 older adults in six neighbourhoods in different districts. Land use mix, street connectivity and residents’ responses were used to quantify the environments. Time spent sitting, walking and engaging in moderate/vigorous physical activity were used to quantify physical activity behaviour. The results show that built environment characteristics such as the availability of commercial and recreational space influence the physical activity of Hong Kong’s older adults. This investigation generates some conclusions which are different with those in low-density environment observed in the Western societies.
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spent sitting, walking and engaging in moderate/vigorous physical activity were used to quantify physical activity behaviour. The results show that built environment characteristics such as the availability of commercial and recreational space influence the physical activity of Hong Kong’s older adults. This investigation generates some
conclusions which are different with those in low-density environment observed in the Western societies.
spent sitting, walking and engaging in moderate/vigorous physical activity were used to quantify physical activity behaviour. The results show that built environment characteristics such as the availability of commercial and recreational space influence the physical activity of Hong Kong’s older adults. This investigation generates some
conclusions which are different with those in low-density environment observed in the Western societies.