This paper considers the role of landscape planning and design in the context of a growing need for research and policy recommendations associated with Emerging Infectious Diseases (EIDs), of which COVID-19 is the most recent. Beginning with a definition of EIDs and their origins within the context of landscape planning, the paper then argues that planning and design scholars and practitioners should begin by seeing the importance of a “global urban ecosystem” (GUE) comprised of rapidly transforming metropolitan and regional “patches” connected through “corridors” of relatively unregulated global transportation and mobility networks. It then revisits the history of the two prior global pandemics of HIV/AIDS and pandemic influenza to establish the importance of a landscape planning perspective at the intersection of wildlife, livestock, and globally connected human communities. The essay concludes by arguing that this GUE concept can facilitate creative planning and design by adapting concepts established in other patch and corridor networks like urban transit systems to the ongoing risk of future pandemic EIDs.

本文考虑了景观规划和设计在与新兴传染病 (EID) 相关的研究和政策建议的需求不断增长的背景下的作用，其中 COVID-19 是最新的。本文从 EID 的定义及其在景观规划背景下的起源开始，然后认为规划和设计学者和从业者应该首先看到由快速转变的大都市和区域组成的“全球城市生态系统”（GUE）的重要性“补丁”通过相对不受监管的全球交通和移​​动网络的“走廊”连接。然后，它回顾了之前两次全球流行病 HIV/AIDS 和大流行性流感的历史，以确立景观规划视角在野生动物、牲畜、和全球连接的人类社区。这篇文章最后指出，这个 GUE 概念可以通过调整在城市交通系统等其他斑块和走廊网络中建立的概念来适应未来大流行性 EID 的持续风险，从而促进创造性的规划和设计。