Adaptable Cities, Pandemic Mitigation and Crisis Preparedness

This 18 months project funded by the British Academy aims to explore how cities have and can be adapted, proactively, within a very short timescale, as to immediately mitigate the impact of any future pandemics on people's health, wellbeing and local economies but also ensure their continuity as rich transactional spaces hosting all types of human, economic, financial and information flows.

Research team: 

​Professor Lauren Andres (lead), Dr. Paul Moawad, University College London;
https://www.ucl.ac.uk/bartlett/planning/bartlett-school-planning
Contact: [email protected] 

Professor Aya Sakai Tokyo City University; 
https://www.tcu.ac.jp/english/study/study_taxonomy/undergraduate/arc_urbandesign/architecture/
Contact: [email protected]
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​Professor Marcus Zepf, Université Paris-Est; Dr. Federica Appendino (ESPI- Paris)
https://www.eup.fr/
Contact: [email protected]
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ADAPT 4 Final Report 

The report provides an overview of the project’s focus, along with insights from our global and national mapping and city-level analyses. More importantly, it presents ten co-designed recommendations that emerged from this research, aimed at shaping future preparedness strategies for cities

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