Abstract
Covid-19 has spread with an incredible speed worldwide, causing a massive loss of both society and economy. Insufficient measures to cope with pandemics results in a large-scale infection. In this context, how to deal with the pandemic has become a hot point. The modern urban planning, derived from building a healthier and safer environment after pandemics (like cholera and "Typhoid Mary") in the last two hundred years (Banai, 2020), has been recognised as one of the most effective approaches to handle the pandemic. In 2020, China was one of the countries that suffered severely from the Covid-19 but the first country to take actions against this pandemic on 25th Jan 2020 and initially controlled the situation before March 2020( Liu, Zhang& Song 2021). Many Chinese literature pieces were published to analyse the impact of the Covid-19 and put forward strategic urban planning methods to deal with the infection. However, classifications and evaluations of how urban planning has performed in this pandemic are insufficient. Consequently, scholars tend to discuss popular topics but ignore some inconspicuous fields intensively. Therefore, this paper will study the roles of urban planning in different stages and spatial scales facing the pandemic based on a systematic review of Chinese literature (On account that majority of related literature are published in 2020, the pandemic discussed in this paper is mainly Covid-19). The outcome of the review shows that urban planning tends to assist the policies and governance in the pandemic's Response and recovery stages but may perform the leading role in the preparedness stage of the pandemic. However, further studies related to recovering from the pandemic, more detailed implementation, and evaluation of the theoretical strategies still require exploration.
