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Architecture and Urbanism Spatial scale plasticity of urban residential areas

Figure 16. Management unit section plan. Source: Drawings by the authors

the needs of various types of urban spatial governance and
also help to create a sense of community belonging and
atmosphere. The scales of residential units can help residents
spontaneously establish community self-governance
organizations to achieve synergy between spatial planning
and design as well as community governance, which can
improve the crisis response capacity of residential quarters.

5.3. Balance SDGs and epidemic control
Massive epidemics pose new challenges to the achievement
of global SDGs. In our planning and design exploration,
we integrate SDGs with epidemic prevention goals and
find that SDGs are compatible with epidemic prevention
goals. The concepts of accessibility and plasticity in SDG
11 coincide with the response strategy of flexible and
Figure 17. West elevation of apartment. Source: Drawings by the authors adjustable urban space use in epidemic prevention and
control.
5.2. Balance of short-term emergency and long-term We also determine how sustainable cities and
stability in social economy communities can respond to epidemics in a sustainable

Non-pharmacological interventions have an indirect way. The integration and accommodation of the two goals
negative impact on socioeconomic goals. The prevention become another focus of our exploration. Our design
and control of short-term emergency can be achieved strategy is simply a positive response to the core concept
by improving the functional resilience of residential of SDG 11 and the three goal levels. Starting from the
community spaces for adaptation. In the long-term, the problems and deficiencies faced by basic residential
daily lives of residents will resume a normalized pattern spatial units, we enhance the spatial resilience, functional
at the end of epidemic. Spatial planning and design take resilience, and social resilience of residential quarters,
the normalized state and bottom-line protection as the ultimately making spatial planning and urban governance
primary goals, rather than designing only for emergency mutually adaptive and reinforced.
purposes. In fact, urban economic and social development
requires a stable and vibrant urban environment to 6. Conclusion
support it, including the spatial environment of residential The worldwide spread of COVID-19 has challenged
quarters. the existing residential quarter planning and design
There are many contemporary urban design theories techniques, prompting the re-examination of the path to
that focus on residential areas, such as CPTED (Crime achieving SDGs. The emergence and application of new
Prevention through Environmental Design), Open technologies as well as the exploration of spatial models of
Block Theory, New Urbanism, and so on. In general, residential space can help with designing residential areas
open residential blocks are more in line with this trend. with plasticity and resilience while integrating multiple
Regarding large gated residential quarters and small-scale objectives, such as epidemic prevention and sustainability.
open residential blocks, management costs and social Acknowledgments
acceptance need to be considered. Based on the theory of
New Urbanism, a reasonable scale of living space can meet None.

Volume 5 Issue 3 (2023) 11 https://doi.org/10.36922/jcau.1242