Towards Resilient Cities and Neighbourhoods to Pandemics

This chapter summarises the valuable insights in the field of resilience-related innovations for cities and neighbourhoods to pandemics presented in the chapters of this book. There has never been a comprehensive and multi-scale book that shares scientific experiences, reviews, analyses, discussions, recommendations, and solutions with scholars, practitioners, policymakers, planners, and stakeholders on how pandemic-resilient innovations can be applied in the planning, design, management, and perception of the built environment. The book brings together a group of scholars and researchers to elaborate on resilient strategies, practices, tools, and ideas for post-pandemic cities and neighbourhoods by highlighting the experience learnt from COVID-19. Moreover, this chapter also extracts some key lessons for resilient cities and communities during pandemics. It also highlights some potential directions and future research from the perspective of pandemic-resilient strategies, public policies, tools, implementation, design and planning, and built environment management. After all, our work aims to create pandemic-resilient cities and communities and achieve urban sustainability.