Leveraging spatial data for pandemic-resilient cities
A manual developed by FCL, based on a study in Makassar in Indonesia, serves as a guide in using spatial pandemic-related data to build pandemic resilience in cities.
The ongoing pandemic and its massive economic and social impacts have emphasised the urgency of developing pandemic resilience in cities. Around the world, cities have been forced to reflect on their ability to mitigate, manage and respond to the pandemic.
Can we make our cities more pandemic-proof?
Future Cities Laboratory researchers have developed a guide for cities, helping them to leverage available data to enhance planning policies post-pandemic era. The external pageLeveraging Data for Urban Design and Planning in Post-COVID Cities manual was developed using spatial pandemic-related data from the city of Makassar in Indonesia to support resilient planning in the city, but also beyond.
The Leveraging data for post-COVID urban planning research was led by Prof. Stephen Cairns and Dr Devisari Tunas. It was funded under the framework of the ASEAN Australia Smart Cities Trust Fund (AASCTF), which is supported by the Australian Government Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade and managed by the Asian Development Bank (ADB).