Eine Plattform für die Wissenschaft: Bauingenieurwesen, Architektur und Urbanistik
Eine Plattform für die Wissenschaft: Bauingenieurwesen, Architektur und Urbanistik
Rethinking Density: Design and Planning for Healthy Informal Settlements Post COVID-19 in Sub Saharan Africa
COVID-19 pandemic has raised very significant attention to improving the detestable state of informal settlements and the relevance of health interventions in design and planning of cities is emphasized. Cities’ sustainability, resilience and health is achievable if the planning and designing of human habitats consider the lives and heterogeneity of residents of informal settlement in addition to the respect of their environmental integrity. Therefore, post COVID-19, radical changes are required in city planning and building designs, as informal settlements are currently diverted from mainstream infrastructure and interventions, including housing. A Critically Appraised Topic literature review was carried out, using relevant keywords and themes in the review of different articles. This study contributes to knowledge by identifying that there is a missing convergence of the tri domain disciplines of planning, building and health in all papers reviewed and very essential for further studies. The findings revealed that the studies on designing and planning with space in mind that prevents disease transmission are very limited and this is a major gap identified. The work draws attention to the relation between Architecture, Urban planning with an eye on Informal settlements space, and Human health. The study indicates that all authors’ emphasis is placed on rapid change, societal reform and transformation for a more sustainable, resilient, equitable, and diverse healthy society. And so, the convergence of these tri-domain disciplines should be explored in future studies.
Rethinking Density: Design and Planning for Healthy Informal Settlements Post COVID-19 in Sub Saharan Africa
COVID-19 pandemic has raised very significant attention to improving the detestable state of informal settlements and the relevance of health interventions in design and planning of cities is emphasized. Cities’ sustainability, resilience and health is achievable if the planning and designing of human habitats consider the lives and heterogeneity of residents of informal settlement in addition to the respect of their environmental integrity. Therefore, post COVID-19, radical changes are required in city planning and building designs, as informal settlements are currently diverted from mainstream infrastructure and interventions, including housing. A Critically Appraised Topic literature review was carried out, using relevant keywords and themes in the review of different articles. This study contributes to knowledge by identifying that there is a missing convergence of the tri domain disciplines of planning, building and health in all papers reviewed and very essential for further studies. The findings revealed that the studies on designing and planning with space in mind that prevents disease transmission are very limited and this is a major gap identified. The work draws attention to the relation between Architecture, Urban planning with an eye on Informal settlements space, and Human health. The study indicates that all authors’ emphasis is placed on rapid change, societal reform and transformation for a more sustainable, resilient, equitable, and diverse healthy society. And so, the convergence of these tri-domain disciplines should be explored in future studies.
Rethinking Density: Design and Planning for Healthy Informal Settlements Post COVID-19 in Sub Saharan Africa
Aigbavboa, Clinton (Herausgeber:in) / Thwala, Wellington (Herausgeber:in) / Aghimien, Douglas (Herausgeber:in) / Ekpo, Christiana (Autor:in) / Moghayedi, Alizera (Autor:in)
Construction Industry Development Board Postgraduate Research Conference ; 2022 ; Eastern Cape, South Africa
Towards a Sustainable Construction Industry: The Role of Innovation and Digitalisation ; Kapitel: 50 ; 508-517
24.04.2023
10 pages
Aufsatz/Kapitel (Buch)
Elektronische Ressource
Englisch
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