As Canada slowly re-opens during the COVID-19 outbreak, urban planners and politicians are working to re-configure their cities to adjust to life with physical distancing and reduce the spread of the virus.
to space people out, closing street lanes to create a wider area for people to walk, and stores dedicating the first hour of shopping to people-at-risk are examples of society adjusting to the new reality of COVID-19.
Queen카지노 게임 컬렉션™s Geography and Planning Professor John Meligrana, MPL카지노 게임 컬렉션™91, has launched a study to discover the new policies and protocols that cities have successfully adopted. The research will be compiled in a report and shared with urban planners, politicians, and municipal leaders across Canada in the fall to help them re-open their towns as safely as possible.
While the world waits for a vaccine to be found in the next year or two, public health officials say physical distancing is one of the top weapons against COVID-19. Designing how thousands of people interact within neighbourhoods, buildings, and public spaces is what urban planners do, so Professor Meligrana hopes his report can play a role in saving lives during the pandemic.
카지노 게임 컬렉션œWe are all praying for a vaccine,카지노 게임 컬렉션 says Professor Meligrana. 카지노 게임 컬렉션œI am praying for all our first responders and praying for scientists to resolve this. But in the meantime, we need to rethink how we are using our cities. How do you achieve physical distancing in Canada카지노 게임 컬렉션™s most densely populated cities? That카지노 게임 컬렉션™s the question. That카지노 게임 컬렉션™s where we can contribute.카지노 게임 컬렉션
The project is being funded by Rapid Response, a Queen카지노 게임 컬렉션™s project supporting research that contributes to the development, testing, and implementation of medical or social countermeasures to mitigate the rapid spread of COVID-19.
Professor Meligrana has hired two grad students (Claire Lee and Stephan Kukkonen) and is working with two fellow Department of Geography and Planning professors (Patricia Collins and Ajay Agarwal) to research and complete the report by the end of October.
They plan to look issues at related to public places (such as parks and sports fields), transportation, and vulnerable communities that have been impacted harder than affluent communities.
Professor Meligrana is already seeing emerging trends, such as a movement toward 카지노 게임 컬렉션œquiet streets.카지노 게임 컬렉션 With fewer people driving, some cities are closing roads to create more room for pedestrians. It doesn카지노 게임 컬렉션™t always work. Kingston recently closed parts of two downtown streets, . These experiences can provide valuable lessons to city planners.
카지노 게임 컬렉션œWe know there are a lot of these good ideas out there,카지노 게임 컬렉션 Professor Meligrana says. 카지노 게임 컬렉션œWe hope to catalogue them, package them, and share them with as many people as possible. Planners can play a big role in making communities safer.카지노 게임 컬렉션
