Pandemics and Urban Planning: Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Cities, Planning and Disease

Helka-Liisa Hentilä is a professor of urban design and planning at the Oulu School of Architecture, University of Oulu, Finland. Her area of expertise is strategic, sustainable and interactive community planning, especially regarding the planning of urban environments for health and wellbeing.Aale Luusua is a university lecturer and postdoctoral researcher at the Oulu School of Architecture, University of Oulu, Finland. With a keen interest on urban spaces and how users experience them, Aale’s research revolves around digitalization in urban environments, user experience in design and research, and developing design theory.Emilia Rönkkö is a senior researcher of urban design and planning at the Oulu School of Architecture, University of Oulu, Finland. Her expertise covers research topics related to healthy cities, urban resilience, social-ecological systems and evidence-based planning.Annukka Sailo holds a PhD in History of Sciences and Ideas from the university of Oulu, Finland. She has studied post-war multidisciplinary debates on human aggression, and the history of epidemiology and health, currently in urban contexts. Anna Suorsa (PhD) is a University Lecturer of Information Studies at the University of Oulu, Finland specialized in co-creative information processes and the use of information and knowledge in decision making. Her research focuses on Knowledge Management, information and knowledge practices and processes in working communities and examining multi-professional working practices.

• .- Introduction..- Town Planning, the Plague Pandemic, and the Origins of Colonial Preparedness in Dar es Salaam, c. 1890 – 1922..- Interspecies Issues: Perceptions of Urban Animals as Threat to Human Health from the 1880s to the Present..- Healthy or Modern City? Urban Planning Contestations during ‘the Hungry Years’ in Dar es Salaam..- Dreams of a Hygienic Healthy Society on the Colonial Mining Angola – Urbanization and Health Services of Diamang, 1910s–1970s..- The Density–Health Connection in Urban Planning, 1920–1980..- The War Against Diseases: Smallpox Control in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, 1920s–1960 and Lessons for Covid-19..- The Urban Environment, Environmental Exposures, and Occurrence of Respiratory Tract Infections..- Urban Planning as Means for Promoting Health and Healthy Behaviors..- The New Syndemic of Obesity and COVID-19 in Urban Areas..- The Role of Information in the Planning Processes of Pandemic-Resistant Cities..- Towards One Health Impact Assessments in Urban Planning..- Envisioning Pathways to Pandemic-Proof Cities.