PANDEMICS AND URBAN FORM. THE COURSE OF EMPIRE

Abstract

In March 2020 when COVID-19 arrived in Türkiye, Özyein University organised a multidisciplinary research team entitled Covid-19 Foresight and Solution Development Team. Within that initiative, an international conference on Pandemics and Urban Form was proposed in order to explore how the pandemic was affecting urban form and life in different countries. It took a while to organise the conference, which had to be entirely online. Due to the lockdowns affecting different countries, and the ongoing pandemic travel restrictions, the conference was organised entirely online using the ZOOM platform.

By joining forces with INTBAU, UK; University of Trento in Italy, Nanjing University in China, Kuwait University in Kuwait, and University of Idaho in the United States, we were able to organize this as an international event.

We received 87 abstract proposals, which were peer reviewed by the conference scientific committee, consisting of 120 international members. Of these, five contributions to the conference are included in this volume.

Out of the selected abstract proposals, the conference finally included 55 papers, 6 keynotes speakers, and 1 Roundtable on pandemics and climate change. The conference lasted from April 28^th to April 20^th 2022 in 13 different sessions. Finally, 128 delegates registered for the conference and attended online.