Introduction: The City During Outbreak Events

Cheshmehzangi, Ali

doi:10.1007/978-981-15-5487-2_1

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“…This research aims to analyse the correlation between Ningbo’s inbound mobility and the number of COVID-19 confirmed cases using the Pearson technique (Zhi et al, 2017 ). It focuses on the mobility feature as this is recognised as the number one cause of disease outbreak spread (Cheshmehzangi, 2020 ). This fact has been evident during the COVID-19 pandemic since its inception, indicating how larger-scale mobility could speed up the process of disease spread.…”

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An urban-level prediction of lockdown measures impact on the prevalence of the COVID-19 pandemic

Ardakani

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Cheshmehzangi

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The world still suffers from the COVID-19 pandemic, which was identified in late 2019. The number of COVID-19 confirmed cases are increasing every day, and many governments are taking various measures and policies, such as city lockdown. It seriously treats people’s lives and health conditions, and it is highly required to immediately take appropriate actions to minimise the virus spread and manage the COVID-19 outbreak. This paper aims to study the impact of the lockdown schedule on pandemic prevention and control in Ningbo, China. For this, machine learning techniques such as the K-nearest neighbours and Random Forest are used to predict the number of COVID-19 confirmed cases according to five scenarios, including no lockdown and 2 weeks, 1, 3, and 6 months postponed lockdown. According to the results, the random forest machine learning technique outperforms the K-nearest neighbours model in terms of mean squared error and R-square. The results support that taking an early lockdown measure minimises the number of COVID-19 confirmed cases in a city and addresses that late actions lead to a sharp COVID-19 outbreak.

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An urban-level prediction of lockdown measures impact on the prevalence of the COVID-19 pandemic

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“…The narrative relies heavily on superficial, politized attacks during a global public health crisis, and failed to present it from the perspective that China is among many other countries who had their weak crisis prevention plan at the institutional level exposed by this pandemic. This is a lesson that all nations should reflect on, the capacity of the public health system in early detection as well as improving global collaboration (Cheshmehzangi, 2020;He et al, 2020;The Lancet, 2021, Yu & Li, 2021. Additionally, the effectiveness of China's swift deployment of a series of crisis management mechanisms and the people's collectivism after mid-January are also overlooked and often silenced in the stories about China.…”

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Performance of Language: A Comparative Linguistic Study of News About China and Italy During the COVID-19 Pandemic in a Canadian News Program

Jian

2024

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The project is a comparative linguistic study on the COVID-19 coverage about China and Italy during the first 3-months of 2020 from the Canadian news program The National. It includes a research paper and a website featuring an animation displaying information silenced by mainstream media. The theoretical framework of the paper is situated within language ideology and is guided by Corpus-Assisted Discourse Studies methodology. Through patterns discovered in the research, it aims to detect the contrareity in the language that The National used between the two countries, and the strategies employed in the performance of “respectable racism” (Antonius, 2002) on China. The animation enunciates the incongruity between the two countries by juxtaposing the prejudiced words used implicitly in China’s corpora with the words in Italy’s corpora. This project hopes to disrupt the status quo in the information dissemination dictated by mainstream media which ostracizes the Chinese community and divides Canadians.

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“…A growing number of reports pertain to constructing a system of resilience to the COVID-19 pandemic. Such research mainly concerns nation-wide or local crisis management systems, particularly in cities following the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic (for example: [22][23][24][25]). South et al [22] write about the community response to the COVID-19 emergency in the UK and how public health has a role in strengthening community resilience through the recovery.…”

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“…Xu et al [23] analysed local community's resilience in the face of the pandemic in Wuhan, the city which was the ground zero for the coronavirus outbreak. At this point, we should also mention the book, "The city in need: urban resilience and city management in disruptive disease outbreak events", by Cheshmezangi [24]. The author of the work identified key factors of community resilience and the role of city management in controlling the pandemic.…”

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How to Deal with Crisis? Place Attachment as a Factor of Resilience of Urban–Rural Communes in Poland during the COVID-19 Pandemic

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Zwolińska-Ligaj

2023

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The phenomenon of place attachment as a community resilience determinant requires a detailed study and, as such, is not sufficiently explored in the literature. This study analyses both resilience determinants and resilience tools in order to provide local communities with optimum courses of action and decision makers with postulates concerning local development policies. Our goal is to determine the effect of place attachment on the activity of the local community in the process of the reconstruction of a local territorial unit following a crisis (COVID-19 pandemic) situation, as well as determine the symptoms of the crisis exemplified by urban–rural communes in Poland. Empirical research was carried out with regard to all 87 urban–rural communes in Poland with their seat in a small city with district rights. The respondents in the survey included individuals in governance positions: mayor/deputy mayor/secretary. Comparative analyses were performed on the entire group by juxtaposing communes located in peripheral regions (19 units) of the Eastern Poland Macroregion and the remaining communes (68). In light of the empirical research, communes located in Eastern Poland’s peripheral regions were more severely impacted by the COVID-19 crisis than ones situated elsewhere in Poland. In urban–rural communes located in peripheral regions, actions supporting the “ability to absorb” shocks are taken more frequently than those promoting “positive adaptability in anticipation of, or in response to, shocks”. Less frequent were proactive measures of innovative nature, involving “restoration and use” of the existing local resources, e.g., new methods of the use of natural resources by the households or new activities in the creative industry based on individual creativity, skills and talents. An analysis of all units reveals a generally low level of pro-resilience activities of the local communities in the communes investigated in the study except for the application of modern technologies/forms of remote communication. It was demonstrated that, in local communities with a high level of place attachment, activities aimed at building resilience are more frequent. For local governments, the results constitute proof of the importance of place attachment in building community resilience in local development policies. We should highlight the need for activities integrating urban and rural residents in urban–rural communes in order to create a shared space with which they could identify while strengthening bonds, thus raising the level of social capital. It is also necessary to look for ways to use IT, not only for communication processes, but also for managing crisis situations, in parallel with activities aimed at strengthening social capital.

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Introduction: The City During Outbreak Events

Cited by 8 publications

References 24 publications

An urban-level prediction of lockdown measures impact on the prevalence of the COVID-19 pandemic

An urban-level prediction of lockdown measures impact on the prevalence of the COVID-19 pandemic

Performance of Language: A Comparative Linguistic Study of News About China and Italy During the COVID-19 Pandemic in a Canadian News Program

How to Deal with Crisis? Place Attachment as a Factor of Resilience of Urban–Rural Communes in Poland during the COVID-19 Pandemic

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