The 15-minute city: Urban planning and design efforts toward creating sustainable neighborhoods

AR Khavarian-Garmsir, A Sharifi, A Sadeghi - Cities, 2023 - Elsevier
The purpose of this study is to explore the 15-minute city concept's underlying principles,
sustainability contributions, and implementation challenges. We show that it relies on the …

Towards building resilient cities to pandemics: A review of COVID-19 literature

M Amirzadeh, S Sobhaninia, ST Buckman… - Sustainable cities and …, 2023 - Elsevier
With the global prevalence of COVID-19 disease, the concept of urban resilience against
pandemics has drawn the attention of a wide range of researchers, urban planners, and …

Community resilience to pandemics: An assessment framework developed based on the review of COVID-19 literature

M Suleimany, S Mokhtarzadeh, A Sharifi - International Journal of Disaster …, 2022 - Elsevier
The COVID-19 outbreak in 2019 and the challenges it posed to communities around the
world, demonstrated the necessity of enhancing the resilience of communities to pandemics …

[HTML][HTML] Cities in the times of COVID-19: Trends, impacts, and challenges for urban sustainability and resilience

JRE Hernández, ST Moghadam, A Sharifi… - Journal of Cleaner …, 2023 - Elsevier
Since the beginning of the COVID-19 outbreak, understanding its impacts on cities has
received much attention in science and policy circles. This paper systematically reviews the …

From garden city to 15-minute city: A historical perspective and critical assessment

AR Khavarian-Garmsir, A Sharifi… - Land, 2023 - mdpi.com
The 15-minute city concept was introduced as a post-COVID strategy to support more
sustainable recovery from the pandemic and develop complete, climate-sensitive, and …

[HTML][HTML] COVID-19 pandemic is challenging some dogmas of modern urbanism

A Jasiński - Cities, 2022 - Elsevier
The outbreak of the COVID-19 global pandemic has brought dramatic changes to many
aspects of urban life. Lockdowns, the social isolation, constrains on mobility, the closure of …

An evaluative model for assessing pandemic resilience at the neighborhood level: The case of Tehran

A Lak, P Hakimian, A Sharifi - Sustainable Cities and Society, 2021 - Elsevier
The spread of the COVID-19 virus, which has caused abundant mortalities in human
settlements, has drawn the attention of urban planners and policy-makers to the necessity of …

COVID-19 and city space: Impact and perspectives

O Lekić Glavan, N Nikolić, B Folić, B Vitošević… - Sustainability, 2022 - mdpi.com
The pandemic of the COVID-19 disease has radically changed human lifestyle and the
usage of living space, especially in cities. With the prolongation of the crisis, the effects of …

Continuing from the Sendai Framework midterm: Opportunities for urban digital twins in disaster risk management

E Macatulad, F Biljecki - International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, 2024 - Elsevier
Urban areas and cities face risks caused by the compounding impacts of urbanization and
increasing frequency of disasters. The importance of implementing disaster risk …

Assessing urban resilience to pandemics with a hybrid framework of planning, absorption, recovery, and adaptation abilities: A case study of Ahvaz, Iran

H Alizadeh, A Sharifi, S Damanbagh - International Journal of Disaster Risk …, 2024 - Elsevier
This research advances urban resilience assessment beyond conventional social,
economic, environmental, and institutional dimensions by introducing a hybrid framework …