Useful guides
Open air transport, and ‘open streets’ events
How to set up a ‘play street‘ in your neighbourhood or around your school
A NZ guide to walking for transport.
Workplace cycling guide – Waka Kotahi’s guide to supporting co-workers and employees to start cycling to work
Waka Kotahi’s Streets for People Covid-19 guidance
NACTO’s Streets for pandemic response and recovery guides.
Creating outdoor dining parklets
Palmerston North’s local guide to creating a parklet
Applying for a parklet in Wellington
San Francisco’s comprehensive parklet guide
Moving learning outdoors
Some useful contacts and resources for those who are interested in teaching outdoors, including ideas for integrating natural settings and ‘nature education’ into the curriculum
Nature schools/educators
Research resources
Outdoor transmission of Covid-19
Bulfone TC, Malekinejad M, Rutherford GW, Razani N. 2021. Outdoor transmission of SARS-CoV-2 and other respiratory viruses: a systematic review. J Infect Dis 223(4):550-561.
Weed, M. and Foad, A. 2020. Rapid Scoping Review of Evidence of Outdoor Transmission of COVID-19. SPEAR, Canterbury Christ Church University: Kent, UK.
Moving outdoors for health and wellbeing during the pandemic
Aotearoa New Zealand
Every-Palmer, S., Jenkins, M., Gendall, P., Hoek, J., Beaglehole, B., Bell, C., . . . Stanley, J. (2020). Psychological distress, anxiety, family violence, suicidality, and wellbeing in New Zealand during the COVID-19 lockdown: A cross-sectional study. PLoS ONE, 15(11), e0241658.
Walker, H. (2020). AloneTogether: The risks of loneliness in Aotearoa New Zealand following Covid-19 and how public policy can help. Auckland: The Helen Clark Foundation.
Wild, K., Hawley, G., Woodward, A., Thorne, R. and Mackie, H. Streetspace reallocation to fight Covid-19: Opportunities and challenges for New Zealand. Mackie Research and University of Auckland: Auckland.
General research resources
Berdejo-Espinola, V., Suarez-Castro, A. F., Amano, T., Rui Ring Oh, R., and Fuller, R. A. (2021) Urban green space use during a time of stress: A case study during the COVID-19 pandemic in Brisbane, Australia. People and Nature, 3(3): 597-609.
Brooks SK, Webster RK, Smith LE, Woodland L, Wessely S, Greenberg N, et al. 2020. The psychological impact of quarantine and how to reduce it: rapid review of the evidence. Lancet 395( 10227):912-920,
Buehler R, Pucher J. 2021. COVID-19 impacts on cycling, 2019-2020. Transp Rev 41(4):393-400
Capolongo S, Rebecchi A, Buffoli M, Appolloni L, Signorelli C, Fara GM, et al. 2020. COVID-19 and cities: from urban health strategies to the pandemic challenge. A decalogue of public health opportunities. Acta Biomed 91(2):13-22
Douglas, M., Katikireddi, S. V., Taulbut, M., McKee, M., & McCartney, G. (2020). Mitigating the wider health effects of covid-19 pandemic response. BMJ, 369, m1557.
Frumkin, Howard. “COVID-19, the Built Environment, and Health.” Environmental Health Perspectives, vol. 129, no. 7, July 2021, p. 75001.
Geary RS, Wheeler B, Lovell R, Jepson R, Hunter R, Rodgers S. 2021. A call to action: improving urban green spaces to reduce health inequalities exacerbated by COVID-19. Prev Med 145:106425
Honey-Rosés, J., Anguelovski, I., Chireh, V. K., Daher, C., Konijnendijk van den Bosch, C., Litt, J. S., . . . Nieuwenhuijsen, M. J. (2020). The impact of COVID-19 on public space: an early review of the emerging questions – design, perceptions and inequities. Cities & Health, 1-17.
Kyriazis, A., Mews, G., Belpaire, E., Aerts, J., & Malik, S. A. (2020). Physical distancing, children and urban health. Cities & Health, 1-6.
International Transport Forum (2020). COVID-19 Transport Brief. Re-spacing our cities for resilience, 3 May 2020.
Soga, M. Evans, M. J., Tsuchiya, K., and Fukano, Y. A room with a green view: the importance of nearby nature for mental health during the COVID-19 pandemic
World Wellbeing Panel. (2020). How to keep up wellbeing during the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Global Perspective. Barcelona: Barcelona Graduate School of Economics.
