The current pandemic has led us to ask many questions about our society and way of life and the design of the urban landscape. Societal norms that drive urban design are based upon the assumption that people are (relatively) healthy. Covid-19 shows this assumption is false, but buildings and urban spaces do not easily allow the adoption of new behavioural norms such as social distancing. Communal spaces, be these pavements outdoors, corridors or rest areas indoors, are not dimensioned to allow easy adoption of measures to reduce the spread of disease. In the medium term this will require a review of design practices. In the short term this has meant changing working practices, work places and communal facilities to work within the constraints required to reduce Covid-19 transmission.

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社论：全球大流行的设计意义

当前的大流行使我们提出了许多有关我们的社会，生活方式和城市景观设计的问题。推动城市设计的社会规范基于人们（相对）健康的假设。Covid-19表明，这种假设是错误的，但是建筑物和城市空间并不容易允许采用新的行为规范，例如社会隔离。公用空间，无论是室外的人行道，走廊还是室内的休息区，其大小都无法轻易采取措施来减少疾病的传播。从中期来看，这将需要对设计实践进行审查。在短期内，这意味着要改变工作方式，工作地点和公共设施，以在减少Covid-19传播所需的限制内工作。