COVID-19 (Forced) Innovations

Introducing the implications of the COVID-19 pandemic on urban design, architecture, and dwellings behavior.- Part 1: Covid-19 challenges and post-pandemic reflections on urban design.- Density, regeneration, and the need for new spaces.- The concept of proximity in post-pandemic architectural thinking: 15-minute city and superblocks.- Re-thinking urban open space as a tool for "Normality".- The contemporary coast as an urban amphibious: The complex relationship between the city-sea interface and urban coastal society after the COVID-19 crisis.- European coastal areas and opportunities for sustainable transformations in post-Covid society.- Ecosystem services and green communities: Local answers for the revitalization of inland areas in the post-Covid era.- Part 2: COVID inducted changes in design strategies and building typologies.- Design strategies for rethinking school environments post-Covid.- An inclusive response to COVID-19: Transforming learning environments.- Study of a mobile medical testing unit in the Context of a historic urban area.- Building post-Covid zero net energy shelters with shipping containers.- Prototyping a peripheral coworking space in the post-Covid era: Proposal for an architectural competition.- Civilization resilience: Luxor heritage then and now. Effect of Covid-19 on heritage and touristic sites between Egypt and Las Vegas.- Part 3: Post-COVID influence on cultural, educational, social aspects and citizens' behavior.- A holistic approach to Well-being through the life course: Topics for learning by the pandemic context post-2020.- Architectural research methods to investigate older people's social isolation.- The new-normal education model in architecture: Digital deconstruction.- 20/21 - Changes in the practical teaching of graphic design.- Regenerating relationship spaces of the post-Covid city.- Discovering post-Covid social indicators for Bibliotheca Alexandrina, Alexandria-Egypt.- Cities and COVID-19: Tracing COVID footprintsin Greek cities.- Afterword - Learning from the post-Covid-19 Pandemic experiences.