URBAN RESILIENCE, SMART CITIES AND HIGHLY INFECTIOUS DISEASES AS AN OPPORTUNITY

Abstract

The paper deals with the issue of highly contagious diseases, with emphasis on
COVID-19 – and the effects of the current situation on certain areas of society, falling into the
field of "security", as described in some relevant foreign studies. Attention is paid to
developments in areas such as medical modeling in response to a pandemic; technological
response to a pandemic; The "urban response" to the pandemic (including the concept of
"smart cities" and other integrated approaches at municipal level); risk analysis and
population protection; responses in the sense of streamlining public administration - and, last
but not least, some geostrategic tensions and fears of lowering the standard of human rights
protection in the context of a pandemic. The text does not address a priori "the issue of
contagious diseases, with emphasis on COVID-19", but this aspect is primarily used to
illustrate the processes that triggered this development, both in terms of solutions to health
epidemiological, but especially in terms of finding ways to increase future resilience by
technical, urban, social, organizational and other means