Built environment and the metropolitan pandemic: Analysis of the COVID-19 spread in Hong Kong

Yip, Tsz Leung; Huang, Yaoxuan; Liang, Cong

doi:10.1016/j.buildenv.2020.107471

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“…Kimura et al 12 and Liang et al 13 suggested the effects of environmental temperatures on walking speed in humans. Kimura et al 12 noted that their participants exhibited a faster walking speed in winter than in summer, while Liang et al 13 reported a relationship between environmental temperature and walking speed during winter in locations with colder climates, and considered that low temperatures might be related to behaviour, in relation to wanting to reach their destination early. Levine and Norenzayn 14 compared pedestrian walking in 31 countries and found that walking speed is faster in cities with cooler temperatures than in warmer cities.…”

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“…For example, Kimura et al’s study was not designed to investigate the relationship between walking and temperature, but only suggested the possibility that walking speeds may differ between winter and summer 12 . Liang et al measured the cold season in one very low-temperature area (0 to – 30 °C) with unidentified participants, and found that people with slow walking speeds, such as older adults and children, selectively refrained from going out on cold days, resulting in an apparent increase in walking speed 13 . Levine and Norenzayn roughly examined the relationship between walking and some measurable environmental factors in 31 metropolitan areas, without any adjustment for covariates 14 .…”

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Walking is regulated by environmental temperature

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Kawai

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The mechanisms that regulate human walking are not fully understood, although there has been substantial research. In our study, we hypothesized that, although walking can be volitionally modified, it is also involuntary and controlled by evolutionary factors, such as the relationship between temperature and movement speed in poikilotherms. This study aimed to determine the effects of environmental temperature on speed, step length, and cadence during unrestrained walking over long periods. Customers of a private insurance company were asked to use a background smartphone GPS application that measured walking parameters. Participants were 1065 app users (298 men and 767 women) aged 14–86 years. Observed walking speed and cadence were higher in winter (average maximum temperature: 10.2 °C) than in summer (average maximum temperature: 29.8 °C) (p < 0.001). The walking parameters were closely related to environmental temperature, with cadence most strongly correlated with daily maximum temperature (r = − 0.812, p < 0.001) and indicating a curvilinear relationship. A decrease in environmental temperature was found to increase cadence when the temperature was below 30 °C. The findings suggest that walking may be regulated by environmental temperature and potentially by the autonomic nervous system’s response to environmental temperature.

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Walking is regulated by environmental temperature

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“…Estudos realizados em âmbito nacional 7 e internacional 23,26 têm ressaltado a importância de se compreenderem as particularidades destas populações na expansão da Covid-19. De um lado, têm-se as regiões metropolitanas, cujas características gerais incluem alto tráfego aéreo e marítimo internacional, alta densidade demográfica e mobilidade urbana, fatores conhecidos por facilitar a propagação das doenças 27 .…”

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“…Com relação à rede de mobilidade intercidades, estudos realizados na Coreia do Sul 41 e em Hong Kong 42 . respaldam as conclusões abaixo descrita quando esclarecem a relação entre o volume de tráfego e a disseminação da Covid-19.…”

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Aspectos espacial e temporal e fatores associados à interiorização da Covid-19 em Pernambuco, Brasil

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Vasconcellos

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Resumo Análise espacial e temporal da interiorização da Covid-19 em Pernambuco, considerando-se os fatores socioeconômicos correlacionados. Estudo ecológico, março a junho de 2020. Geraram-se mapas a partir do coeficiente de incidência por município de residência para determinar a dinâmica espacial da Covid-19. Estudou-se a correlação entre indicadores socioeconômicos e o coeficiente nas regiões metropolitana do Recife (RMR) e interior. Suavizou-se este coeficiente e calculou-se o teste de Moran global. Os primeiros casos foram registrados em Recife e arredores. O caminho para a autoctonia se deu em municípios vizinhos e naqueles supridos por grandes rodovias. A maior incidência na RMR (640,22/100.000 hab) correlacionou-se à maior população e densidade demográfica e menor taxa de urbanização e IDH-M. No interior a incidência (361,29/100.000 hab) esteve correlacionada à maior população, densidade demográfica e taxa de urbanização, e menor área (p<0,05). As áreas de maior risco concentraram-se na RMR, mas o interior apresentou áreas de transição, indicando tendência à interiorização (p<0,05). Ter ciência do padrão de distribuição espacial da Covid-19, aliada aos fatores associados poderão contribuir para maior efetividade das ações de controle.

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Hong Kong, the Virus and Illiberalism: Between Flattening the Curve and an Authoritarian Slide?

Sadowski

2022

Int J Semiot Law

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Can the pandemic measures be used to advance particular political means? The question of correlation between illiberal legal changes adopted amongst the wave of legislation focused on battling COVID has arisen in a number of countries around the world; as an increasing number of states finds leaving restrictions behind in 2022, however, Hong Kong is still battling the Omicron wave of the pandemic. Ever since its transition to China in 1997, Hong Kong has retained its place on the world stage as an international business hub and, while getting closer to the Mainland, enjoyed the freedoms provided by its SAR status. At the same time, by the end of the second decade of the twenty-first century the tensions between the pro-democratic inclinations of the large part of the city’s population and pro-Mainland disposition of the SAR’s political elite began to rise, with proposals of various legal acts put forward by the local government often perceived as encroaching freedoms. The street-level ‘standoff’ between the authorities and the people was brought to a halt by the COVID-19 pandemic; and, with protesting rendered virtually impossible, a number of controversial legal changes were introduced by the government taking advantage of the situation, which, together with the anti-pandemic measures have continued to negatively impact the city’s financial hub status. The purpose of this paper is to analyse the correlation between Hong Kong’s fight with the pandemic and the local government’s taking advantage of the situation in order to implement illiberal legislation, and its aftermath.

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Built environment and the metropolitan pandemic: Analysis of the COVID-19 spread in Hong Kong

Cited by 63 publications

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Walking is regulated by environmental temperature

Walking is regulated by environmental temperature

Aspectos espacial e temporal e fatores associados à interiorização da Covid-19 em Pernambuco, Brasil

Hong Kong, the Virus and Illiberalism: Between Flattening the Curve and an Authoritarian Slide?

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