Urban planning and public policy responses to the management of COVID-19 in Ghana
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2021
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CITIES & HEALTH
Abstract
The 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.
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ACE: Energy and Environmental Sustainability, University of Energy & Natural Resources, Ghana, Power, Planning, public Policy, public Health