Small Grant Scheme on Pandemics, Cities, Regions & Industry: Understanding Urban Differences in the Spread of Covid-19 and Socio-economic Inequalities: Bogotá, Colombia vs Chenai, India
This exploratory study seeks to understand the impacts of Covid-19, considering urban socio-spatial patterns and the context of socio-economic inequalities in the two boroughs of Colombian capital city of Bogotá compared with the city of Chenai, India. Based on the socio-economic characterisation and aggregated data on mortality and infection levels, this research seeks to understand the impacts of the virus in the two cities, which differ greatly in socio-economic terms and urban planning with respect to safe and equitable mobility through the application of field interviews complemented with the space syntax approach.
“This grant awarded is an excellent opportunity for international cooperation with colleagues from UK, Portugal, Spain, Colombia and India, as well as the possibility of crossing scientific fields between public health and urban planning.”
Principal investigator: Vasco Barbosa
He is associate professor, expert member at the European Science Foundation and the European Commission. He was a post‐doctorate in Urban and Spatial Planning at the University of Trás‐os‐Montes e Alto Douro, Portugal (2017-2018), and the Federal University of Viçosa, Brazil (20142018) with cooperation of UCL. He has a PhD in territorial planning and rural development (2013) and an MSc in management and planning of sustainable land use (2011) from the University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain. He is also an architect who graduated from the Faculty of Architecture and Arts, Lusíada University, Porto, Portugal, in 2000.During these years, won prizes in international competitions in architecture in the areas of contemporary architecture and urban planning. Current research interests: Spatial planning; Land use planning; Space syntax; Urban and rural development; Green infrastructure; heritage and landscape; Space Syntax.