CITTA’ E PANDEMIE. DENSITA’ URBANA E DENSIFICAZIONE DOPO IL COVID-19

Abstract

CITIES AND PANDEMICS.
URBAN DENSITY AND DENSIFICATION AFTER COVID-19
Abstract
The 2020 pandemic has prompted the belief in political decision-makers, the public and in
scholars that little deepen their knowledge of urban phenomena, that there is a direct
relationship between housing density and the breakout of contagion. Future researches will
bring these considerations back into the right perspective. However, there is the risk that, in
the meantime, they could influence the codification in the Italian legislative framework of
key needs on which the urban planning discipline now seems to converge: to stop land take;
to promote eco-social city regeneration; to favor collective local mobility. In this study, in
verifying the lack, to date, of a scientific basis for affirming this relation, indicators
potentially able to better describe and measure the fragility of the urban condition with
respect to epidemics were also highlighted.

Keywords: urban density, pandemic, resilience