Sustainability Sustainability in urban planning and its role to face pandemics

  • ِArch . Yazan Samer Fattoum Urban Planning
  • Dr. Barrak Najeeb Gharbi
الكلمات المفتاحية: Sustainability – Pandemic – Urban – Sustainable Community – Cities

الملخص

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 .

Author Biographies

ِArch . Yazan Samer Fattoum, Urban Planning

Architect At Department Of Urban planning– Faculty of Architecture- Hama University-Hama-Syria.

Dr. Barrak Najeeb Gharbi

Doctor At Department Of Urban planning– Faculty of architecture- Hama  university- Hama  -Syria.

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منشور
2022-12-21
How to Cite
Fattoum, Y., & Gharbi, B. (2022). Sustainability Sustainability in urban planning and its role to face pandemics. Journal of Hama University , 5(20). Retrieved from https://hama-univ.edu.sy/ojs/index.php/huj/article/view/744