How did COVID-19 case distribution associate with the urban built environment? A community-level exploration in Shanghai focusing on non-linear relationship

• Jingyi Gao ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Jingyi Gao, Yifu Ge

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Software, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Architecture and Building Science, Graduate School of Engineering, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1887-3240

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• Yifu Ge ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Jingyi Gao, Yifu Ge

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Software, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation School of Architecture and Urban Planning, Nanjing University, Nanjing, China

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• Osamu Murao,

  Roles Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation International Research Institute of Disaster Science, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5696-7857

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• Yitong Dong,

  Roles Data curation, Resources, Software

  Affiliations Department of Architecture and Building Science, Graduate School of Engineering, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan, Shanghai Urban Planning and Design Co., Ltd. of Shanghai Planning Institute, Shanghai, China

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• Guofang Zhai

  Roles Conceptualization, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: guofang_zhai@nju.edu.cn

  Affiliation School of Architecture and Urban Planning, Nanjing University, Nanjing, China

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