Abstract
There is increasing evidence that the built environment contributes to the transmission and spread of COVID-19. The purpose of this study was to identify the associations of neighborhood built environment characteristics and spread of COVID-19. 1,150 neighborhoods of 9,691 confirmed cases were retrieved and 495 neighborhoods (6,675 cases) were included in this study after screening. Neighborhood built environment characteristics include value related, scale related, and distances to hospital and metro station variables were retrieved from four platforms. One-way ANOVA was first conducted to test the relationship between neighborhood infection index and built environment characteristics and multinomial logistic regression analyses were later conducted to test the significance of each variable. The results show that there are positive relationships between higher infection index and lower property management fee (significance level is 0.01), earlier year built (0.01), property prices (0.05), lower floor area ratio (0.05), lower green area ratio (0.05), larger number of households (0.01), larger number of buildings (0.01), and larger number of households/buildings (0.01), and closer distance to hospitals (0.01). The findings of this study further affirm the relationship between community spread of COVID-19 and several major neighborhood built environment characteristics.
Presenters
Zhou FangLecturer, Department of Design, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Hubei, China Chunping Li
Changzhou Institute of Technology Patrick S. W. Fong
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Details
Presentation Type
Paper Presentation in a Themed Session
Theme
2021 Special Focus: Building the Anthropocene
KEYWORDS
Neighborhood, Built environment, COVID-19, Wuhan, Green space, Property management
