COVID 19 and Urban Development

ABSTRACT

Pandemic “COVID 19” is affecting almost all the countries across the globe. This spread through body fluids, hence people are advised to follow social distancing. As a result, most of the people are staying at homes and not visiting their places of work, markets, restaurants, public places, etc., resulting in slowing down of economy. Many people have migrated from urban to rural areas for employment. The current level of infrastructure, i.e. Transport, roads, parking, markets, cinema halls, restaurants/hotels, industries/factories, institutions, etc., is not required and only hospitals, police, communication, and essential services are required. Demand for Water/electricity/food and related paraphernalia has been reduced or finished. This trend is expected to continue for few more years, as more such virus attacks are expected in near future as well as due to low economic activities. This is resulting in a change in urban built environment as more urban spaces are becoming free. With this trend, future cities are going to be different than the present ones with less built-up spaces and less demand for urban infrastructure. An analysis of future urban built environment has been done in this paper. © 2022, The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd.