Abstract
With growing impacts on public health systems and economies across the world, as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic outbreak, we need to reflect on some of the early lessons for urban resilience enhancement. In this paper, a brief discussion is made through several recommendations that could make our cities more prepared specially in the probable future waves of this current outbreak or potential spikes in infections or clustered cases. The experiences from global examples highlighted in this study address what has worked in the past few months at the spatial levels of communities and cities. The COVID-19 outbreak highlighted the deficiencies and shortfall across multiple sectors of the urban systems and enabled us to identify risks, challenges, and pathways to better city management. With regard to urban resilience enhancement, the negative impacts of the COVID-19 outbreak are assessed to suggest a checklist of what could be done through early preparedness. The findings are novel in ongoing research related to urban resilience and public health during the COVID-19 pandemic. The early lessons here reflect on the ongoing situation of this pandemic outbreak, but could effectually help to enhance the resilience of our cities and communities, and especially addressing the protection of public health and societal well-being. The findings contribute to major sectors of urban resilience, city management, and public health. The recommendations from this study could be utilised and adapted in any context, allowing for the consideration of all-inclusive decision-making and much-enhanced planning processes.
Highlights
During the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic outbreak, many measures or practices helped to make cities and communities more resilient
The early lessons here reflect on the ongoing situation of this pandemic outbreak, but could effectually help to enhance the resilience of our cities and communities, and especially addressing the protection of public health and societal well-being
The early lessons that are highlighted here are useful for any potential returns of the outbreak at the city level
Summary
During the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic outbreak, many measures or practices helped to make cities and communities more resilient. It is evidenced that the early measures enabled the possibility to reduce the later impacts, the more widespread impacts on public health, economies, and local operations [2] These are narrated as part of lessons learned from urban resilience enhancement that could be adapted to various contexts, depending on the conditions and preparedness of those cities and communities. This study briefly reflects on several early lessons for urban resilience enhancement during the COVID-19 and aims to address the importance of preparedness that could make our responsiveness more effective and successful After all, it is worth preparing for the future, and in particular, against any unexpected spikes in infections; and time, we hope we could respond with a much-enhanced preparedness. This example shows the multiplicity of impact assessment and impact management, which could lead to immediate action plans at various levels and in various conditions
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