Urban spaces as a positive catalyst during pandemics: Assessing the community's well-being by using artificial intelligence techniques
Ain Shams Engineering Journal
; 14(5), 2023.
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in English
| Scopus | ID: covidwho-2279408
ABSTRACT
Amid the Covid-19 pandemic, lifestyles changed completely. This new normality damages human psychology and mental health. Hence, new approaches must be considered while shaping public spaces to accommodate the pandemic life. This paper aims to show the importance of exploiting outdoor spaces to save people's mental health. Accordingly, an online survey is conducted and analyzed by Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS) for more precise answers. Afterward, the most important public spaces during the pandemic are extracted;consequently, another questionnaire has been held to validate these items. The last one has been run through a machine learning technique to classify and categorize the users' different preferences in three situations only. It was found that 85,17% of the sample declared the importance of outdoor public spaces. However, future research is needed to rethink urban spaces' design and to relocate the activities done within indoor public spaces to the outdoors to maintain human mental health. © 2022 THE AUTHORS
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Ain Shams Engineering Journal
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2023
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