Impacts of Coronavirus on the Future Cities and Municipal Engineering

Cities function as complex and chaotic systems that seek to achieve a new order through tending to entropy. In this interactional context, urban space is expected to be reproduced in a relatively different way, and in this process, the relations between the centers of activity, habitation and space have evolved and establish a new pattern and behavior that can reproduce its own new space. The aim of this study is to discover the probable impacts of Coronavirus crisis on urban and regional space and on synergy of this interplay by the pattern of human relations and behavior in space. For this purpose, after reviewing historical documents and sources and observations resulting from lived experience, in an interview with a group of experts and specialists in this field, 50 of them were selected to conduct an online survey. The resulted average and the coefficient of variation of this opinion-poll showed that for all variables, the average was higher than 5, and therefore experts believe in a change in the future. However, the coefficient of variation indicates that among all variables there’s a more consistent consensus on objectified changes in status quo. Therefore, besides developing immediate actions for some cases, long-term scenarios should be developed for other cases.