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Urban Planning to Prevent Pandemics: Urban Design Implications of BiocyberSecurity (BCS)

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Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems ((LNNS,volume 284))

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Recent pandemic complications have spurred significant conversation concerning how various organizations rethink their infrastructure and how people interact with it. More specifically, some city governments are considering how they can improve or re-purpose infrastructural design as they manage pandemics and potentially those to follow. In facilitating this effort, it is essential to look at effectively established principles and perspectives of modern designers to forge new functional and practical infrastructure that can accommodate behavioral changes within a pandemic. As smart cities increase in number, this is of particular concern due to their utilization of computing components in routine citizen and infrastructural interactions. This prevalent interface of citizens interacting with cyber-physical and remote cyber systems requires consideration of the intersection of biosecurity, particularly during a pandemic. Consequently, in this work, a proposed baseline by which city planners can draw inspiration for their efforts to boost resilience to pandemics is designed using First Principles, along with a collection of modern opinions. This exploratory work in progress aims to spur such questions in literature and provoke meaningful dialogue towards this endeavor.

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  1. Frank Batten College of Engineering and Technology, Biomedical Engineering Institute, Old Dominion University, 4111 Monarch Way, Norfolk, VA, 23508, USA

    Lucas Potter & Xavier-Lewis Palmer

  2. Department of Neuroscience, College of Natural and Behavioral Sciences, Christopher Newport University, Forbes Hall 1053, Newport News, VA, 23606, USA

    Ernestine Powell

  3. Department of Engineering Technology, Frank Batten College of Engineering and Technology, Old Dominion University, 102 Kaufman Hall, Norfolk, VA, 23529, USA

    Orlando Ayala

  4. School of Cybersecurity, Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA, 23529, USA

    Xavier-Lewis Palmer

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Potter, L., Powell, E., Ayala, O., Palmer, XL. (2021). Urban Planning to Prevent Pandemics: Urban Design Implications of BiocyberSecurity (BCS). In: Arai, K. (eds) Intelligent Computing. Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, vol 284. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-80126-7_85

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