Importance of community containment measures in combating the COVID-19 epidemic: From the perspective of urban planning

Geo-spatial Information Science

Qiquan Yang¹  Junjing Yang¹  Xin Huang² 

[1] School of Remote Sensing and Information Engineering, Wuhan University, Wuhan, Chin;School of Remote Sensing and Information Engineering, Wuhan University, Wuhan, Chin;State Key Laboratory of Information Engineering in Surveying, Mapping and Remote Sensing, Wuhan University, Wuhan, Chin;

关键词: SARS-Cov-2;    close-off;    transmission;    remote sensing;    landscape;    city layouts;    infection disease;    healthy city;   

DOI  :  10.1080/10095020.2021.1894905

来源: Taylor & Francis

【 摘 要 】

To contain the outbreak of COVID-19 in Wuhan, unprecedented interventions, including city lockdown and community closure, have been implemented. However, most of the current studies focused on evaluation of the city lockdown, but paid limited attention to the impacts of the community containment measures within the city. This research addressed this important issue from the perspective of urban planning, based on the epidemic and remote sensing data of 194 communities of Wuhan. We found that the number of confirmed cases of communities is highly related to urban planning factors, e.g. area percentage of buildings and density of neighboring markets. These factors are relevant to the residents’ activity patterns, which therefore impact the mode of virus transmission. Our research confirmed the effectiveness of the community-oriented control strategies, provided a valuable reference for other cities that are suffering from the epidemic, and exhibited new thoughts into future urban planning.

【 授权许可】

CC BY