The COVID-19 pandemic: Impacts on cities and major lessons for urban planning, design, and management

A Sharifi, AR Khavarian-Garmsir - Science of the total environment, 2020 - Elsevier
Since the early days of the COVID-19 crisis the scientific community has constantly been
striving to shed light on various issues such as the mechanisms driving the spread of the …

Urban resilience for urban sustainability: Concepts, dimensions, and perspectives

X Zeng, Y Yu, S Yang, Y Lv, MNI Sarker - Sustainability, 2022 - mdpi.com
Urbanization is a continuous process for a city's economic development. Though rapid
urbanization provides a huge employment opportunity for people, urban threats also …

Co-benefits and synergies between urban climate change mitigation and adaptation measures: A literature review

A Sharifi - Science of the total environment, 2021 - Elsevier
Accounting for over 70% of global CO2 emissions, cities are major contributors to climate
change. Acknowledging this, urban climate change adaptation and mitigation plans are …

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 …

[HTML][HTML] Urban sustainability assessment: An overview and bibliometric analysis

A Sharifi - Ecological Indicators, 2021 - Elsevier
Following the recognition of the significance of urban areas for achieving sustainable
development in the late 1980′ s, first studies on 'urban sustainability assessment'were …

A systematic review of the health co-benefits of urban climate change adaptation

A Sharifi, M Pathak, C Joshi, BJ He - Sustainable Cities and Society, 2021 - Elsevier
The recent and projected upward trends in the frequency and intensity of climate-induced
events in cities have enhanced the focus on adaptation. In addition to enhancing the …

[HTML][HTML] Progress in Tourism Management: Is urban tourism a paradoxical research domain? Progress since 2011 and prospects for the future

SJ Page, M Duignan - Tourism Management, 2023 - Elsevier
This paper reviews progress in the field of urban tourism, revisiting and challenging the
validity of the paradoxes presented in the paper by Ashworth and Page (2011). To do this …

[HTML][HTML] Measuring social resilience in cities: An exploratory spatio-temporal analysis of activity routines in urban spaces during Covid-19

C Champlin, M Sirenko, T Comes - Cities, 2023 - Elsevier
Covid-19 has dramatically changed life in cities across the globe. What remains uncertain is
how national policies and appeals to comply with suggested rules translate to changes in …

COVID-19 pandemic: rethinking strategies for resilient urban design, perceptions, and planning

S Afrin, FJ Chowdhury, MM Rahman - Frontiers in Sustainable Cities, 2021 - frontiersin.org
From the beginning of the COVID-19 crisis, the scientific community has been continuously
trying to assess the virus, its socio-environmental impacts, regulatory/adaptation policies …

Trade-offs and conflicts between urban climate change mitigation and adaptation measures: A literature review

A Sharifi - Journal of Cleaner Production, 2020 - Elsevier
Many cities around the world are increasingly developing plans and policies for mitigation
and adaptation to climate change. These plans and policies are often focused on either …