Calling for responsible inclusive planning and healthy cities in Africa

Urban planning is at a turning point The COVID-19 pandemic calls for an alternative approach which focuses on creating healthier built environments This especially true in Africa given rapid urbanization combined with skill shortages and underinvestment Connecting health not new across Forty-five per cent of African countries experience least one epidemic annually, including cholera, measles malaria partly related to the presence dense informal unplanned settlements, minimal access water, sanitation hygiene facilities contributing transmission respiratory illnesses Here, Andres et al assess impacts examine role urban such circumstances