What explains the disparities in the spread of COVID-19 in New York City? It is not density.
Does Density Determine COVID-19 Destiny? Let’s look at the Data (Medium Article)
On March 22, Andrew Cuomo, the governor of New York, described the level of density in New York City as “Destructive” and called for “an immediate plan to reduce density”. This was not the first time that New York City was being criticized for its high levels of Density. However, this time Governor Cuomo’s criticism was carrying a new weight since it was blaming density for the rapid spread of COVID-19 in the city. As of April 5, New York City had close to 67,552 cases of COVID-19 making it the city with the highest number of cases nationally, by a high margin.
5 Design Strategies for Healthier Living During a Pandemic using Point-of-Decision-Design
What’s New For Environmental Design in 2019?
Gehl’s keynote reminds us that at the heart of the seemingly conflicting forces between designing for objects or for people is the historical lack of knowledge about how people experience space, how they are affected by space, and how they interact with space. Human-centered design has long been a value for EDRA, and this year saw an increase in tools and methods being developed to study such human experiences, often in new digital ways and across various types of spaces and building sectors.
Eve Avdoulos joins CADRE as an Urban Health and Wellness Visiting Scholar
Eve’s interests lie at the intersection of architecture, anthropology and urbanism, and she is particularly interested in the relationship between the materiality of the built environment and how it shapes, and is shaped by, the diversity of human activity. She maintains an interdisciplinary research approach in all of her work, drawing from methods and theories from various disciplines.