Abstract
Cities have been almost completely unprepared for the COVID-19 pandemic. Urban history has known many epidemics and pandemics, and there are clear historical parallels between the 13th and 19th century plague pandemics and cholera epidemics and the 21th century COVID-19 pandemic, from an administrative point of view. However, the cities’ public administration did not take into account the experience of the cities of the past to be prepared for the future problems. This requires developing flexible pandemic strategies and focusing on the decentralization of urban space through an even distribution of population in the urban environment. The COVID-19 pandemic will change the city, as previous pandemics and epidemics did. Urbanism v.3.0. will emerge, combining a green vector of development and digital technologies to ensure the autonomy and sustainability of buildings, districts and cities. At the same time, the role of culture will increase, which will become an effective tool for consolidating the soft power of the city in order to attract new people as the opposition of nowadays trend for living in the countryside.
Highlights
Cities have existed for about 10,000 years (Perlman, 1983, p. 16), and for about the same period cities have been plagued by various epidemics
The first catalyst for the urban development became the plague epidemic, which affected all spheres of life from economic to cultural, similar to the way in which the COVID-19 pandemic did
In the context of the COVID-19 pandemic, this is especially important, since some studies have already found a correlation between the spread of coronavirus and air pollution in urban environments (Ogen, 2020, p. 2)
Summary
Cities have existed for about 10,000 years (Perlman, 1983, p. 16), and for about the same period cities have been plagued by various epidemics. 16), and for about the same period cities have been plagued by various epidemics. From a formal point of view, the city has changed relatively little. It still implies a large number of people living compactly in the common territory with developed infrastructure, where there is a constant exchange of goods, services and knowledge – generally speaking, those are the non-agricultural tasks The first ideal city concept was developed by Plato around 375 BCE. The first catalyst for the urban development became the plague epidemic, which affected all spheres of life from economic to cultural, similar to the way in which the COVID-19 pandemic did. Pandemics and epidemics as a factor of urban development: historical context and nowadays parallels
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