In recent decades, the world has witnessed a variety of emerging infectious diseases, some of which developed to pandemic world threatening outbreaks, the ongoing COVID-19 is known to be taking the lead in claiming lives around the globe and thus, urging people to trail its increasing figures. Therefore, this research aims to emphasize the role of urban planning in containing such outbreaks through running a series of analytical and statistical studies on European cities, worst inflicted region, to analyze the main urban features they share and that may be propagating the disease spread according to their population size, density, form, intracity connectivity and intercity connectivity. This study, as far as we know of, is the first practice to evaluate both the individual and combined impacts of these factors on recorded rates of infections. According to the context of this research, it is concluded that the diversity found in urban features are, to a large degree, related to cities being more vulnerable than others. Intracity connectivity through public transport is found to be the possible prime factor of this study, and is followed by population size, density, and intercity connectivity. Urban morphology seems to also contribute to such outbreak, with both radial and grid cities being associated to higher infections rates as to linear cities. Henceforth, setting priorities in post-pandemic urban planning schemes is essential for planning resilient cities that are capable to thrive and maintain functionality with lowest possible infections amid else possible diseases that are to follow in severity.

近几十年来，世界各地出现了多种新发传染病，其中一些已发展成为全球大流行，威胁爆发，目前已知的新型冠状病毒肺炎 (COVID-19) 在全球范围内率先夺走生命，因此敦促人们警惕其不断增加的数字。因此，本研究旨在通过对受灾最严重的欧洲城市进行一系列分析和统计研究，分析它们共有的、可能传播疾病传播的主要城市特征，强调城市规划在遏制此类疫情中的作用。人口规模、密度、形态、城内连通性和城际连通性。据我们所知，这项研究是首次评估这些因素对记录的感染率的单独影响和综合影响。根据这项研究的背景，得出的结论是，城市特征的多样性在很大程度上与城市比其他城市更脆弱有关。研究发现，通过公共交通实现的城内连通性可能是本研究的首要因素，其次是人口规模、密度和城际连通性。城市形态似乎也促成了这种爆发，与线性城市相比，放射状城市和网格城市都与更高的感染率相关。今后，在大流行后城市规划方案中确定优先事项对于规划具有复原力的城市至关重要，这些城市能够在感染严重的其他可能疾病中以尽可能低的感染率蓬勃发展并维持功能。