Thesis (MArch) - Cyprus International University. Institute of Graduate Studies and Research Architecture Department

Includes bibliography (sheets 103-121)

ABSTRACT
Adequate urban planning and monitoring can be a powerful tool that can be used in
improving global health and reduce the burden of infectious diseases, in this regard,
public transport has a significant impact on environmental health and citizens. Cities,
despite increasing population growth, widening the extent of environmental
degradation and pollution, insufficient services and infrastructure, dilapidated urban
fabric, informal housing, etc., which provides a wide range of factors threatening
human health and the quality of life of citizens in cities around the developing world.
On the other hand, the lack of a global definition of health, makes it difficult to
compare different countries and cities in terms of public health and the impact of
infectious diseases on citizens' health. Health has been considered a new approach in
the urban development planning literature, to improve the citizens' quality of life.
In this thesis, to assess the health status in the urban planning approach, an attempt has
been made to examine its effects on improving the health of the citizen by examining
global records and experiences according to the recent pandemic and considering local
conditions in urban transportation. The Northern Cyprus Island is a common point
between Europe and Asia and it is considered as part of the developing countries,
which has a large number of immigrants each year due to its numerous universities,
health control based on urban planning. Whereby, the public transport in Famagusta
city of the Northern Cyprus will invested.
Therefore, by combining qualitative and quantitative methods, studies have been done
in this thesis. At first, the history of diseases in the world has been considered by the
literature review, and then by the same method, the use of land and its role in the health
of society has been studied. Since the two variables (land use and citizen health) have
reciprocal effects, the correlation method has been used in this section, by examining
public transport, how the recent pandemic spread and its effects on land use have been
extracted.
Keywords: Covid-19, Cyprus, Disease, Land use, North, Transportation, Urban
planning