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cord-035290-ungilw9s	Rice, Louis	After Covid-19: urban design as spatial medicine	2020-11-11		.txt	text/plain	2898	170	53	The entire world is facing the same acute health emergency of Covid-19 which is already impacting half of the global population, and as the majority of the world now inhabits urban settings, urban dwellers are the most affected. After Covid-19, urban design ought to become a form of spatial medicine, whereby the design of built environments positively contributes and facilitates human and planetary health and wellbeing. During the Covid-19 lockdown, there are changes to the determinants of health, the diverse range of environmental, economic and social factors that impact on human wellbeing, compared to the pre-Covid period. The Covid-19 event is perhaps an appropriate juncture for 'health' to be considered as a new tenet for the urban design profession? The post-Covid-19 practice of urban design may be described as a form of 'spatial medicine' (Fig. 1) . Temporal dimension These sub-categories comprise the wide range of issues that impact on humans, the natural world and planetary health.	./cache/cord-035290-ungilw9s.txt	./txt/cord-035290-ungilw9s.txt