COVID-19 is a global pandemic where urban built environment is facing significant challenges. Deploying robust strategic planning and decisions on built environment can overcome or reduce such challenges. These strategies can help to inform, assist urban citizens as well as address anticipated threats of pandemics. From the Ottoman Empire to modern Turkey has taken several strategic measures for its urban built environment in order to ensure health and safety issues of the urban citizen. Based on secondary based research, this study reviews the historical background on different measures on the urban built environment and giving special attention on COVID-19 until its normalisation phase started on June 1, 2020. This study recommends that centralised decision making and active participation and implementation at the local level can make successful to combat pandemics. This study also recommends that adequate provision of place, safety, health-related issues with an integrated manner are needed to form healthy urban built environment. In addition, safe water, green environment, adaptation-based strategies on climate change, comprehensive community planning, de-densifying inside buildings etc. seems to be a solution for future urban built environment design.

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关于城市建筑环境对土耳其流行病的战略决策：来自 COVID-19 的教训

COVID-19 是一种全球流行病，城市建筑环境正面临重大挑战。在建筑环境中部署稳健的战略规划和决策可以克服或减少此类挑战。这些策略有助于通知、协助城市居民以及应对大流行的预期威胁。从奥斯曼帝国到现代土耳其，为其城市建成环境采取了多项战略措施，以确保城市居民的健康和安全问题。本研究基于二次研究，回顾了对城市建成环境采取不同措施的历史背景，并特别关注 COVID-19，直到其正常化阶段于 2020 年 6 月 1 日开始。本研究建议在地方层面集中决策和积极参与和实施可以成功抗击流行病。本研究还建议，需要以综合方式充分提供场所、安全、健康相关问题，以形成健康的城市建成环境。此外，安全用水、绿色环境、基于气候变化的适应策略、综合社区规划、建筑内部去密化等似乎是未来城市建成环境设计的解决方案。