A new dataset from Simon Fraser University researchers shows how the resort measures up to 14 other Canadian cities in terms of cycling infrastructure.
A new dataset from Simon Fraser University researchers shows how the resort measures up to 14 other Canadian cities in terms of cycling infrastructure.
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Circles designed to help prevent the spread of the coronavirus by encouraging social distancing line San Francisco’s Dolores Park on May 21, 2020. (AP Photo/Noah Berger)
The public health response to the COVID-19 pandemic introduced the idea of bubbles to our social lives.
These strict directives to stick to our bubbles are essential to prevent the transmission of COVID-19. At the same time, this way of thinking disrupts our understanding of the kinds and quantities of social interactions needed to make healthy cities possible.
Health and social networks
In 2013-14, the Vancouver Coastal Health and Fraser Health Authorities asked 33,000 people living in the Lower Mainland of B.C. a series of big-picture questions about their health, at the individual and community level. One of these questions, a marker of physical and mental health, was: