Urban planning and public policy responses to the management of COVID-19 in Ghana

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dc.contributor.authorAnaafo, David
dc.contributor.authorOwusu-Addo, Ebenezer
dc.contributor.authorTakyi, Stephen Appiah
dc.contributor.orcid0000-0002-1614-2965
dc.date.accessioned2024-07-17T09:54:39Z
dc.date.available2024-07-17T09:54:39Z
dc.date.issued2021
dc.descriptionThis article is published by Taylor & Francis, 2021 and is also available at https://doi.org/10.1080/23748834.2021.1876392
dc.description.abstractThe global COVID-19 pandemic, with its associated issues of isolation, enhanced hygiene practices and contact tracing brought up a number of issues to the public domain, many of which bordered on the nexus between urban planning and public health. This paper sets out to examine how new ideas concerning the linkages between urban planning and public health revealed by the COVID-19 pandemic can be integrated into practice, moving forward; and how we might leverage on the crisis to build more just, healthier and liveable cities. Through a review of the literature on public policy responses to pandemics, it is observed that the current urban planning system in Ghana leaves so many people behind and exposes the lives of many to current and future disease pandemics. We propose an agenda for transformation which revolves around the co-evolution and co-creation of new forms of societal values that are less materialistic and individualistic but rather more egalitarian.
dc.description.sponsorshipKNUST
dc.identifier.citationCITIES & HEALTH 2021, VOL. 5, NO. S1, S280–S294
dc.identifier.uri10.1080/23748834.2021.1876392
dc.identifier.urihttps://ir.knust.edu.gh/handle/123456789/15854
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherTaylor & Francis
dc.titleUrban planning and public policy responses to the management of COVID-19 in Ghana
dc.typeArticle
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