The Role of Urban Environment Design on Health During the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Scoping Review.

ABSTRACT: The COVID-19 pandemic has had a significant impact on the ways and times of living and using urban spaces, specifically referring to the dimension of daily life. The restrictive measures introduced during the lockdown periods have necessarily led to a re-evaluation of proximity scale bringing particularly attention to issues relating to public transport and mobility and to the quality and distribution of open public spaces. This scoping review explores the relationship between the urban environment design and health referring to the constraints imposed by the COVID-19 pandemic in the period from 2020 to 2021, with two main objectives: (i) to investigate the recurring urban design topics and issues related to the spatial and social needs stressed by the emergency; (ii) to identify the urban

SUBMITTER: Faedda S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9099229 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature