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The 2020 COVID-19 outbreak has caused significant disruption to economic and social systems. New York City, as the United States’ largest city and among the nation’s most densely populated, was an early epicenter of the crisis. Modifications to the design, planning and operations of the city’s public realm have been important components of the city’s overall response to mitigate the effects of the pandemic while also facilitating economic recovery and providing social, educational, and recreational opportunities for city residents. This commentary provides an overview of New York City’s urban design responses to COVID-19, highlighting some of the successes and limitations of the city’s programs. We conclude by arguing that, in order to be effective, short-term crisis response efforts such as these must eventually be turned into government policies that not only address immediate urgent crises but also begin to facilitate durable long-term recovery and address longstanding systemic inequalities and vulnerabilities.

After independence, early decades in the Indian capital city were marked by ceremonials, demonstrations and politico-religious addresses. The enthusiasm of the nascent state trying to forge a shared public sphere was dampened by voices of dissent from different opposition groups. These voices took the form of demonstrations and sit-ins in New Delhi, especially around the Parliament Street. Thus, challenging elected government’s use of space for functional and ceremonial purposes through such acts. However, the government, in order to contain protesting publics, could not continue to deploy the measures of colonial crowd control, and had to come up with means suitable for its democratic setup. Over years these contestations regarding defining use of public spaces between state and public(s) resulted in the development of guidelines and defining of designated sites of protest. In this view, the purpose of this paper is to contribute toward understanding of New Delhi’s space post-1947 and explain how certain demonstrations led to shaping of the government’s approach regarding protest sites. The same will be done by bridging the gap between spatial and socio-cultural theorists to study the capital city beyond its architectural grandeur and theoretical claims about public space. Overall, the paper is organized into four parts: the first section explores the idea of public space in the national capital with focus on importance of the Parliament House; the second and third sections study specific sites like Boat Club, Ramlila Maidan and Jantar Mantar in association with protests like JP Movement; and the final part looks at the evolution of government guidelines and the emergence of contained protest sites.

In China, a considerable number of old communities lack public space. The light prefabrication and assembly living room can be flexibly implanted into the community as a temporary building, providing a new model for improvement of the living environment of the old community. This research explores appropriate form of the community light prefabrication and assembly living room from the perspective of ergonomics and climate adaptability, and completes the 1:1 actual construction. At the same time, it is pointed out that the use of low-cost light prefabrication and assembly technology makes mass production and rapid installation possible, and promotes the building into an inclusive space product.

After reading this chapter, you will be able to do the following:

• Develop a fundamental understanding of diversity and inclusion.
• Understand how diversity and inclusion are related to aspects of social identity.
• Critically engage with the major areas of impact regarding diversity and inclusion in sports social media.
• Understand trends and current issues that exist around diversity and inclusion in sports social media.
• Summarize the key skills needed to address diversity issues in sports social media.

We conducted comparison and summary of WeChat article contents in order to classify and collect statistics of the types and sources of cartoon characters involved. For this, we used articles recommended by WeChat public numbers of Xiamen large business community as sample sources and selected the WeChat articles containing cartoon characters of the last three years as research data. The result showed that commercial brands mainly use two-dimensional cartoon characters for display and propaganda with a much smaller proportion of real cartoon objects. At the same time, it is the overseas cartoon models that occupy the dominant position in quantity rather than the domestic ones which are less often seen. Such results can be due to the high investment cost, high market risk of real cartoon character objects and less influential power of local cartoon characters to the public, etc. With this result, we hope to deliver information about what influence the public space display of cartoon characters can make on itself and commercial brand impact, as well as what innovations can be made for the local cartoon characters so that they become more attractive. In addition, this study can be a reference for those industries which have just set foot on the use of cartoon models in actual business operations.

With the transformation of people’s concerns from physical space to study of urban public space, this study put forward ideas and strategies for the renewal of public space in the old district from the perspective of the user environmental behavior pattern. This article researched Luosibang district in Soochow Old Town as a case study. In investigating the composition of user-group and using status of public space, found that the elderly and children were the main users in the public space of the old district. It proposed the principle of the renewal of public space in the old district based on the elderly and children’s environmental behavior characteristics, and finally put forward concrete strategies by a conceptual design. This study is a meaningful exploration in the field of urban transformation.

This article tries to examine the use of two terms, namely “public space” and “civil society” by Chinese scholars. Through analyzing the different contexts, be it cultural, historical or political, between China and the West, this article cautions against unreflective use of the two terms. Moreover, the background of “civil society” research in China differs from that of theWest, for which reason it is necessary to bear these differences when applying these terms.