Queensland COVID-19 research

This page of Queensland’s research related to the COVID-19 pandemic is compiled from information provided by Queensland universities and research institutes.

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• Urban Design and Town Planning in response to COVID-19 June 2020

  This USC project offers a ‘systems thinking’ perspective to assist in the exploration and description of the impacts of COVID-19 on public spaces in Australia. The approach utilises Human Factors and Sociotechnical Systems methodologies to examine activities that were restricted under lockdown, and how such restrictions affect system performance and community wellbeing. The project utilises a pre-COVID systems model of public space as a basis for exploring the necessary changes required when considering the requirements of social distancing for disease minimisation and mitigation. Such whole-of-system based perspectives of urban design and town planning permit a clearer interpretation and integration of global and national health priorities in the design and use of public space at the human scale.

  #Urban design and town planning

  Centre

  School of Social Sciences and Centre for Human Factors and Sociotechnical Systems
  University of Sunshine Coast

  Contact details

  Dr Silvia Tavares
  Lecturer in Urban Design and Town Planning
  stavares@usc.edu.au
  07 5456 5884

  Collaborations

  • Co-researcher: Dr Nicholas Stevens
  • Collaborator: Journal of Public Space and City Space Architecture