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2021年3月15日星期一
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ASCE, Journal of Urban Planning and Development
Topic: Urban Physics and COVID‐19 Pandemic Risk Management
Team of Guest Editors:
Guest Editor: Dr. Arezou Shafaghat (Primary Guest Editor)
Affiliations: CIFAL Atlanta, the United Nations Institute for Training and Research, Marietta, Georgia, 30060, USA Email: arezou.shafaghat@gmail.com, or, arezou@utm.my Website: https://dga.kennesaw.edu/cifal/canlproject/canlaffiliatedfaculty.php Co‐Editor #1. Dr. Ali Keyvanfar
Affiliation: Construction Management department, College of Architecture and Construction Management, Kennesaw State University (KSU), Marietta, Georgia, 30060, USA Email: akeyvanf@kennesaw.edu Website: http://facultyweb.kennesaw.edu/akeyvanf/index.php
Co‐Editor #2. Dr. Binbin Jiang
Affiliation: Director, CIFAL Atlanta, 3391 Town Point Dr NW, Room 2811, MD 9119, Kennesaw, GA 30144 Email: bjiang@kennesaw.edu Website: dga.kennesaw.edu/cifal/canlproject/canlteammembers.php
Co‐Editor #3. Dr. Hasanuddn Lamit
Affiliation: Department of Landscape Architecture, Faculty of Built Environment, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Skudai 81310, Johor, Malaysia Email: b‐hasanuddin@utm.my Website: https://people.utm.my/hasanuddin/
Co‐Editor #4. Dr. Richard Halstead‐Nussloch
Affiliation: College of Computing and Software Engineering, Kennesaw State University (KSU), Marietta, Georgia, 30060, USA Email: rhalstea@kennesaw.edu Website: http://facultyweb.kennesaw.edu/rhalstea/index.php
Section 1.1. Introduction and Problem Statement
The COVID‐19 pandemic has affected intensively on millions of people and communities. The world‐shaking communicable coronavirus disease has become a pandemic threat and a challenge to our health and, subsequently, to the built environment, which forced governments to enforce new and innovative commitments to public healthcare.
The impacts of COVID‐19 on people's health and well‐being have been investigated and debated by hundreds of researchers worldwide. Governments and authorities have raised a few de‐urbanization solutions to control COVID‐19 risks,such as decentralizing services and supplies, isolating communities, and restrictions on social behaviors. However, these solutions are short‐term treatments, not long‐term consolidated treatments.
Through a few studies in this short period, the researchers found that COVID‐19's spread and growth can be affected by heterogeneities in demographic structure, seasonal effects, population mixing, the network of the transmission process, incubation period after the saturation, and of course, built environment. However, there is no sufficient evidence on the urban management's best practices and lessons learned from prior pandemics and preventative measures which can be applied for the COVID‐19 case. Indeed, urban professionals have mainly focused on chronic diseases, while the attention to infectious diseases remained oversight.
Section 1.2. Aim and Scopes
According to prior pandemic studies (such as influenza, and SARS), the environmental factors can aid particularly in managing pandemics. Focusing on urban physics studies can exceptionally aid us by creating a healthy and guarded built environment against COVID‐19. In general, urban physics promotes socio‐environmental and economic‐sensitive urban management to create a quality built environment and enhancing the quality of life. It persuades us to rethink urban management. Previous studies indicated several urban physics factors affecting a healthy built environment, mainly, urban climatology, urban microclimate, urban meteorology, properties of surfaces and forms, airflow and ventilation, air temperature, streetscape design, and the vegetation. Also, prior researchers indicated that urban geometry isthe most effective factor impacts on a healthy built environment change. Importantly, the researchers have explored there is an association between urban physics and human comfort and well‐being. Indeed, urban physics constituents are the primary sources of respiratory diseases, cardiovascular diseases, and infectious diseases.
Therefore, urban physics principles and attributes can promote public health and well‐being. Urban physics can control and manage the COVID‐19 pandemic risks considerably. This issue persuades us to investigate the effects of built environmental and urban physics measures and metrics in control of COVID‐19. In particular, urban physics can play a This special issue shall be managed and edited by the team of Guest Editors, who will be acting as handling editors for the manuscripts submitted to this collection.
The team of guest editors has professional degrees, outstanding backgrounds, and several publications to this special issue topic. Significantly, the team has exceptional track‐records in multidisciplinary environmental studies, merging built environment and public health. The diverse expertise and extensive experiences of the team collective support CIFAL Atlanta’s strategic focus on the promotion and implementation of UN's Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), particularly on SDG 3: Good Health and Well‐being; SDG 9: Industry, Innovation, and Infrastructure; SDG 11: Sustainable Cities and Communities; and SDG 13: Climate Action. The following presents the short biographies of team members, briefing their academic backgrounds and research experiences.
Guest Editor: Professor Dr. Arezou Shafaghat (Primary Guest Editor)
Short Biography: Dr. Arezou Shafaghat is a professor, scientist, and professional researcher of sustainable urban development and public health, close to ten yearsleading and supporting research projects. Dr. Arezou's consulting activities are spread to worldwide countries, mainly to the United States, Malaysia, Qatar, South Korea, and Australia. She has been working with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Georgia Institute of Technology, UC San Diego, Kennesaw State University, Duy Tan University, University Technology Malaysia, and Qatar University, in different roles (as a managing editor, research project leader, and faculty). She has published five books and more than seventy articles and supported more than fifty start‐ups as a scientific advisor in sustainable development, design, and planning. She has received honorary Professorship from Korea Invention Academy in 2016 for these achievements. She has been the guest editor and reviewer in several journals, selected, Urban Studies, Sustainable Cities and Society, Engineering, Construction, and Architectural Management, Science of The Total Environment, and International Journal of Construction Management.
Co‐Editor #1. Professor Dr. Ali Keyvanfar
Short Biography: Dr. Ali Keyvanfar is a full‐time faculty at the College of Architecture and Construction Management, Kennesaw State University (KSU). He received the Korean World Scientific Award in Material science in 2016. He is an experienced academician, R&D project manager, start‐up investment advisor, and international professional consultant with close to ten years of record in sustainable construction engineering and management (by method and material) in Malaysia, South Korea, Australia, Qatar, Bahrain, Nigeria, Ecuador, and the United States. He has been the leading quest editor, and reviewer ofseveral journals, and hasreceived several outstanding reviewer awards.
Co‐Editor #2. Professor Dr. Binbin Jiang
Short Biography: Dr. Binbin Jiang, Director of CIFAL Atlanta, also serves as a Professor of International Education, Leadership and Research, and Executive Director of the Division of Global Affairs at Kennesaw State University. Dr. Jiang is an international scholar and leader with over 25 years of experience in teaching, research, and administration in multiple international contexts around United Nations SDGs. Dr. Jiang's recent books include:
Transforming America: Cultural Cohesion, Educational Achievement and Global Competitiveness (2011); a co‐edited volume in Chinese, Educational administration of Elementary and Secondary Schools in the United States (2012); and the co‐edited volume Transforming Education: Global Perspectives, Experiences, and Implications (2013). In addition to serving on editorial boards of national and international journals, Dr. Jiang also served as the Editor‐in‐Chief of the journal New Waves: Educational Research and Development, and has published over 60 scholarly works as journal articles or book chapters.
Co‐Editor #3. Professor Dr. Hasanuddn Lamit
Short Biography: Dr. Hasanuddn Lamit was the head of the Landscape Architecture department at the Faculty of Built Environment, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM). He is an experienced academician, R&D project manager, international professional consultant with close to thirty years of record in social science research in architecture, public health, landscape, and urban design in Malaysia, UK, Australia, Qatar, New Zealand, and the United States.
He has been the guest editor and reviewer in several journals, selected, Sustainable Cities and Society, Building and Environment, and Journal of Cleaner Production. He has published several books and more than seventy articles.
Co‐Editor #4. Professor Dr. Richard Halstead‐Nussloch
Short Biography: Dr. Richard Halstead‐Nussloch is a Professor of Information Technology at Kennesaw State's College of Computing and Software Engineering. He has much experience in all phases of helping people learn to use technology better and, more importantly, to shape technology to serve people better. Starting in the late 1960s and through the 1970s, he researched, designed, developed, implemented, assessed and improved Monte Carlo computer simulations to teach scientific research and engineering application; he also completed surveys and interviews into the welfare‐to‐work programs to determine what environmental and behavioral characteristics foster the successful transition. During the late 1970s, he researched transportation safety problems and designed product and behavioral countermeasures that still effectively reduce public‐health loss by preventing vehicle crashes. During the 1980s and early 1990s, while at IBM, he effectively used computer‐user data and computer‐use experimentation to identify, design, develop, implement, assess and improve user capability, interaction, and experience working with computing technology. From the late 1990s through now, he has effectively taught Kennesaw State's (KSU) graduate and undergraduate students how to research, design, implement, assess and improve computing technology to best serve the people using it. During this tenure at KSU, he has also performed funded research and development, e.g., in individual, corporate and community use of the World Wide Web, effective adult and online learning, digital government, and using team wisdom to research, design, develop and implement intelligent models to harness technology to serve people.
