What determines city's resilience against epidemic outbreak: Evidence from China's COVID-19 experience

J Chen, X Guo, H Pan, S Zhong - Sustainable cities and society, 2021 - Elsevier
By employing the city-level data from China during the spring of 2020, this study investigates
the relationship between city-level resilience against the outbreak of COVID-19 pandemics …

What determines urban resilience against COVID-19: City size or governance capacity?

Z Chu, M Cheng, M Song - Sustainable cities and society, 2021 - Elsevier
This study analyzed the effects of urban governance and city size on COVID-19 prevention
and control measures. Based on real-time data in 276 prefecture-level Chinese cities, we …

Which urban communities are susceptible to COVID-19? An empirical study through the lens of community resilience

C Shi, L Liao, H Li, Z Su - BMC Public Health, 2022 - Springer
Background After the lockdown of Wuhan on January 23, 2020, the government used
community-based pandemic prevention and control as the core strategy to fight 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 …

Spatio-temporal patterns of Chinese urban recovery and system resilience under the pandemic new normal

H Fu, N Hong, C Liao - Cities, 2023 - Elsevier
Enhancing urban resilience is an important measure to improve preparedness to public
health challenges; therefore, understanding the patterns and determinants of urban recovery …

Exploring the spatio-temporal evolution of economic resilience in Chinese cities during the COVID-19 crisis

T Cheng, Y Zhao, C Zhao - Sustainable Cities and Society, 2022 - Elsevier
Fully understanding the spatio-temporal evolution of economic resilience is key to
formulating policy responses to major public health events. In particular, whether developed …

Urban resilience under the COVID-19 pandemic: A quantitative assessment framework based on system dynamics

J Zhang, T Wang - Cities, 2023 - Elsevier
The COVID-19 pandemic, which lasted for three years, has had a great impact on the public
health system, society and economy of cities, revealing the insufficiency of urban resilience …

A spatiotemporal analysis of urban resilience to the COVID-19 pandemic in the Yangtze River Delta

X Chen, R Quan - Natural Hazards, 2021 - Springer
The COVID-19 pandemic has severely affected the normal socioeconomic operation of
countries worldwide, causing major economic losses and deaths and posing great …

The influence of COVID-19 on community disaster resilience

W Xu, L Xiang, D Proverbs, S Xiong - International journal of …, 2021 - mdpi.com
Global pandemics, such as the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19), have serious
harmful effects on people′ s physical health and mental well-being. It is imperative …

Resilience of Smart Cities to the Consequences of the COVID-19 Pandemic in the Context of Sustainable Development

A Kuzior, D Krawczyk, P Brożek, O Pakhnenko… - Sustainability, 2022 - mdpi.com
The development of digital technologies is one of the factors influencing the cities' readiness
for the COVID-19 breakout. The purpose of this article is to assess cities' resilience to the …