Making Sense of Planning and Development for the Post-Pandemic Cities

2024
ISBN: 978-981-97-5480-9
Verlag: Springer Nature Singapore

Buch, Englisch, 286 Seiten, HC runder Rücken kaschiert, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 241 mm, Gewicht: 617 g

Reihe: City Development: Issues and Best Practices

This book holds a distinguished promise of an intellectual understanding and complete account of that shifts in laying out resilient planning, development, and policy landscapes for the cities to come.

The approach offers a unique perspective on planning and development in the post-pandemic era, addressing the interconnectedness of diverse spatial, social, cultural, economic, demographic, and political aspects. It provides insights into the transformational behavior of cities and citizens, explores the influence of remote work on the real estate market, emphasizes the need for resilient infrastructure and adaptive planning, and reinforces the association between health infrastructure and planning for resilient cities.

The book provides a comprehensive account of the shifts and challenges faced in planning and development due to climate change and the COVID-19 pandemic. It explores transformational urban planning, sociocultural, and economic landscapes and addresses topics, including land use changes, transformational real estate market, urban recreational space, adaptive infrastructure, and the need for resilient planning. It offers valuable insights for urban designers, architects, geographers, city planners, policymakers, and pubic officials seeking to enhance city resilience in the post-pandemic era.

The intended readership of the book includes urban designers, architects, city planners, geographers, policy makers, and public officials. It caters to individuals interested in gaining a critical understanding of the interconnectedness between various spatial, social, cultural, economic, demographic, and political aspects. The content level is academic, offering scholarly insights and a unique post-pandemic perspective on enhancing city resilience.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Nahiduzzaman, Kh Md

Fachgebiete

• Geowissenschaften Geographie | Raumplanung Geographie: Allgemeines, Karten & Atlanten
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizin, Gesundheitswesen Public Health, Gesundheitsmanagement, Gesundheitsökonomie, Gesundheitspolitik
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Systeme Kommunal-, Regional-, und Landespolitik
• Geisteswissenschaften Architektur Ökologische Aspekte in der Architektur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

INTRODUCTION.- URBAN INFRASTRUCTURE & RESILIENCE.- Poland’s Small Towns from Pre- and Post-Pandemic Perspective: on Life Quality as a Resilience Measure.- Infrastructure Resilience in The Post Pandemic Urban Areas of Bangladesh.- DYNAMICS OF URBAN TRANSFORMATION & REAL ESTATE MARKET.- The variability of dynamics in urban spatial transformation during the post-COVID era: Perspectives of the developed and developing nations.- Reshaping Post-pandemic Cities: The Need for Sustainable Urban Transformation Framework (SUTF).- Reimagining airport travellers’ experiences in the post-COVID-19 pandemic era: current reality and practical solutions.- Picturing pandemics as an urban disaster: enumerations of post-COVID life in informal.- Transformational mobility and real estate market in the post-pandemic cities. What do they mean for the future cites?.- URBAN PLANNING & DEVELOPMENT.- Development Incentives in South African Local Government & Administration, a significant growth factor for municipal planning, innovation and service delivery during and post-COVID 19.- Shortcomings of Urban India in dealing with the Pandemic: A study on how the Rural regions have responded to pandemic strike.- Older Adults’ Experiences of Social Exclusion in Pakistan: A Qualitative Study.- Rethinking Urban Planning and Development for the post-Pandemic urban crowd management.- Rethinking Land Use Planning for Clean, Smart and Resilient City in the Post-pandemic World: Tales from High Density Asian Cities.- CONCLUSION.

Über Autor(innen)

Professor Kh Md Nahiduzzaman is a Nordic-trained Canadian urban planner with a Ph.D. in Urban Planning from the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Sweden, and an M.Phil. in Geography from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Norway. Before joining the School of Architecture, Planning and Design (SAP+D) at Mohammed VI Polytechnic University (UM6P) in Morocco, he was a faculty member at the Faculty of Applied Science in the University of British Columbia (UBC) Okanagan, Canada. He has also taught at the Department of City and Regional Planning in King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals (KFUPM), Saudi Arabia, and the Department of Urban Planning and the Environment in the Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden.

Currently, Prof. Nahiduzzaman is responsible for co-coordinating the PhD program and the TOP (Territorial Observatory Performance) Lab at SAP+D, UM6P. His research focuses on urban resilience, urban transformational planning, human-centered smart cities, digital twins, and indigenous knowledge in climate risk and vulnerability assessment and policies. A recognized expert in these fields, he collaborates on research projects with governments, industrial partners, and communities worldwide, including Canada, Italy, Spain, Romania, France, Germany, Czech Republic, USA, Morocco, Saudi Arabia, China, Kazakhstan, and Bangladesh.

Prof. Nahiduzzaman has secured over $5 million in research grants from prestigious national and international funding agencies. He has (co-)authored more than 100 scientific manuscripts in highly regarded journals, books, and proceedings. His contributions to non-structural flood mitigation, floodplain mapping, and land use planning strategies in BC have had significant impact on provincial policies.

He serves as Executive and Book Review Editor of the Journal of Urban Management (Elsevier), Editor-in-Chief of the City Development: Issues and Best Practices (ICCCASU) journal, and Editorial Board Member of the Journal of Urban Planning and Development (ASCE). He actively participates in various national and international scientific committees and think tanks, such as the ICCCASU (International Conference on Canadian, Chinese and African Sustainable Urbanization), ICCSA (International Conference on Computational Science and Its Applications), the African Smart City Forum, the Casablanca Smart City Conference, and International Conference of the Arab Society for Computation in Architecture, Art and Design (ASCAAD).

Prof. Nahiduzzaman serves as a co-chair of the "Smart and Connected Cities" track in the US-Africa Frontiers program, which will take place on February 18-20, 2025, in Kigali, Rwanda. He is currently a visiting scholar at the Department of Regional Development, Public Sector Administration and Law at Tomas Bata University in Zlín, Czech Republic.