Overview
- Discusses the potential of urban planning in anticipation and prevention of infectious disease epidemics and pandemics
- Offers multidisciplinary insights from historical case studies to present issues, and charting pathways into the future
- Encourages cross-sectoral discussions and integrative policies between urban planning and health fields
Part of the book series: Future City (FUCI, volume 21)
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Although the environment has long been recognized as a key factor for human health, the linkages between infectious diseases and urban environments are not well known. Consideration of infectious disease prevention and control in contemporary urban planning has largely been neglected. The proposed book discusses in a multidisciplinary manner the role of urban living environments and prevention of infectious disease epidemic and thus, pandemic outbreaks in history and presently, in the post-Covid era. From historical studies of urban outbreaks to present issues and charting pathways into the future urban planning, the edited book curates a collection of timely research from the fields of environmental research, environmental health, health history, information studies, public health, and urban planning. The book offers research-based insights into the linkages between urban living environments and human health, serving as inspiration for researchers, students and professionals.
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Table of contents (13 chapters)
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Front Matter
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The Past
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Front Matter
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Emergent Futures in Healthy Urban Planning
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Front Matter
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Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
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.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Pandemics and Urban Planning: Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Cities, Planning and Disease
Editors: Helka-Liisa Hentilä, Aale Luusua, Emilia Rönkkö, Annukka Sailo, Anna Suorsa
Series Title: Future City
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-97348-2
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2025
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-97347-5Published: 27 September 2025
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-97350-5Due: 11 October 2026
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-97348-2Published: 26 September 2025
Series ISSN: 1876-0899
Series E-ISSN: 1876-0880
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 239
Number of Illustrations: 11 b/w illustrations, 13 illustrations in colour
Topics: Landscape Architecture, Public Health, Urban History