What to Learn from Vulnerable Regions for Healthy Cities Extracting Embedded Components of Covid-19 Practices

The aim of this research is to go beyond the reading of vulnerability based on indicators. This study seeks to explore the ‘embedded’ components that are ignored in Covid-19 process management and related indices/indicators and discuss healthy city policies through these components, by harnessing good practices and collective actions. The research sample (see Figure 4) comprises good practices in countries with high vulnerability in the Global South, namely Brazil, Turkey, India, South Africa, and China. A number of countries, including these, were firstly examined for their responses to the Covid-19 process in pandemic regions within the framework of urban resilience (Aygün Oğur et al., 2021). In addition to this elaboration, some parameters, including socio-economic structure, social, economic and spatial vulnerability of the countries, extent of social inequality, virus transmission rate in the population, data availability, and existence of alternative management approaches to Covid-19, singled out these countries for analysis. The role of different socio-spatial components in creating and governing healthy cities, which will be analysed qualitatively, will be considered through an examination of collective actions in these practices, rather than stereotyped vulnerability indicators.