Cities that design access to nature are not only designing greener cities, they are designing healthier citizens

The Lazzarettos of Dubrovnik, Croatia are artifacts of city-design to combat infectious diseases from centuries ago.  How might the future of our cities reflect the history of quarantine and city planning we are writing today?

This month, a temporary emergency field hospital opened in Central Park to provide additional capacity to handle the outbreak of the coronavirus in New York. It is a good reminder of the park's historical connections to public health, as well as the intersections of urban planning and public health more broadly.

COVID-19, the worse public health crisis in generations, is also resulting in some moving expressions of the social nature of humanity in our cities. 

COVID-19 will spread similarly in cities across the world; how well cities are prepared to respond will vary greatly - and the difference will be measured by grim statistics and a death toll.

Cities are playing an essential role in responding to COVID-19 putting mayors and city council members on the front lines battling the growing challenges.

John Snow’s (1813-1858) work with forensic mapping is considered fundamental to modern epidemiology and calls attention to the importance of understanding the urban geography of disease.   How should we be reading geospatial information about COVID-19?