Sustainability Sustainability in urban planning and its role to face pandemics

Abstract

This research lead to study the importance of urban sustainability in our future plans for cities for their effective role to face pandemics, especially at the present time, which we face COVID-19, where sustainable cities played a prominent role  in protecting their residents from the catastrophic effects of other cities without having to make a major change in urban strategies to restore the city from the state of economic and social paralysis that hit unsustainable cities due to health measures imposed around the world, so it is necessary for us to transform from our current cities into cities with a green economic, based on modern technology in their public infrastructure, with little negative impact on the surrounding environment and meet all the needs of its residents and provide them with safety at all levels, which is what results to us successively by  embedding sustainability in the urban planning for our future cities .