Build Community Resilience Beyond Covid-19

Towards a liveable and smart future

Master thesis (2022)

Authors

B. YUAN Architecture and the Built Environment

Contributors

G. Bracken Spatial Planning and Strategy - Architecture and the Built Environment (mentor)
Maurice Harteveld Urban Design - Architecture and the Built Environment (mentor)
E.J.G.C. van Dooren Public Building and Housing Design (coach)
Faculty
Architecture and the Built Environment, Architecture and the Built Environment
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Published Date

16-06-2022

Language

English

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Faculty

Architecture and the Built Environment

Abstract

The outbreak of the pandemic in 2020 took a huge toll on Wuhan. The community in metropolitan areas has played a key role in China's pandemic control as a key battleground for closed management and become the focus of society under the pandemic prevention and control.
However, its exposure of weak coping capacities makes building community resilience from an outbreak perspective urgent and critical. Besides, there are many inadequacies in the existing research on community resilience in China. Therefore, it is urgent and valuable to explore community resilience in the context of the Wuhan pandemic perspective.
This project aims to establish an integrated strategic framework to improve community resilience and achieve a liveable and smart urban environment in Wuhan in the long term.
This project is developed from the main research question: What can we learn from the Covid-19 response in Wuhan to enhance community resilience in the long term by adopting planning strategies?
Taking the community response in Wuhan under the pandemic as a departure point, this project explores a framework for increasing community resilience in the long term, using spatial planning, governance, and human capital as measures, and proposes a toolkit of corresponding strategies: including temporary planning, urban renewal, digital transition, and public engagement, hoping to realize a vision of a liveable and smart future.
Next, the Strategy Timeline provides an overview of four main stages with stage milestones, strategies, and key actions. Then the project-specific upgrading goes through four steps: deep analysis and data gathering, co-design, implementation, and evaluation. In the evaluation part, the rules guide the user to test the quality of the project by combining objective site-specific assessment and subject public feedback.
At last, a diverse range of typology sites are selected. Through local design, the community resilience schematic frameworks and strategy toolkit are examined on the ground.
In general, this project focuses on urban upgrading with the theme of community resilience, using the new crown as a starting point. It is hoped that it can give more insights for later studies, including the resilience evaluation framework, the strategy toolkit, and the mechanisms of community planning to design implementation.