COVID RESHAPING PERCEPTION OF SAFETY by Jose Pablo Ceballos Cantu, Zhuo Yang

As there has been a strong impact on Fig. 1. Fig. 2. IMPRINT both physical and psychological health Safety Scores of Different Palces Before and Businesses in due to the pandemic, a radical shift of During the Pandemic Mapping Project safety perception towards public places Winter Semester 2020/2021 has occured[1,2]. Technische Universität München To best reflect and understand these Jose Pablo Ceballos Cantu changes that people have faced during this pandemic, we have used a series of Zhuo Yang “Before” & “After” choropleth maps to help tell the story. SUPERVISORS Methodology Juliane Cron, M.Sc. Data source: OpenStreetMap, Online Sur- Dr.-Ing. Mathias Jahnke vey. The left clusterd bar chart shows the safety scores of different places after the assignment and Research methods: reclassify the places calculation from the online survey. Obviously the safety level has dropped significantly during the to 10 categerioes as previous research[3]; pandemic. The right heat map shows the distribution of 10 types of places in Munich, including KEYWORDS assign scores to different levels and restaurants, bars, supermarkets, gyms, parks, etc. aggregate them by places and districts, Fig. 3. COVID-19, Safety Perception, then divide it with the district area to get Safety Perception Distribution by Munich Administrative Region Before and During the Pandemic Frequency relative index.

Conclusion LINK Overall, people worry more after the pan- https://covid-reshaping-safety.netlify. demic as they concern mainly about their app/ physical and mental health conditions. In the mean time, people also tend to think that places which are more concurred and have more indoor activities as less safe. General safety perception decreased a lot with the exception of parks. This may bring some insights about urban environ- Note: This website has not been optimized for ment construction and public health risks mobile use. Please use your phone on landscape mode for better experience. management for decision-makers. Also, These two choropleth maps display the changes of safety level according to public opinons. Lots helps citizens to have a better understand- of districts became less safer during the pandemic, such as -Freimann, , ing of the change they have experienced Trudering-Riem and Ramersdorf-Perlach. At the mean time, central areas always perform as less towards what it means to be “Safe”. safer places.

Fig. 4. Fig. 5. Biggest Safety Concerns Before and During the Frequency of attendance by Munich Administrative Region Before and During the Pandemic Pandemic

REFERENCES [1] Cori L, Bianchi F, Cadum E, et al. Risk perception and COVID-19[J]. 2020. [2] Gerhold L. COVID-19: risk perception Biggest safety concern changed as physical These two choropleth maps demonstrate the frequency level of places which were most likely and coping strategies[J]. 2020. and mental health conditions are the main visited by citizens. The general travelling frequencies declined as many districts changed to light concerns at present while robbery and sexual colors during the pandemic, but the central area of Munich still shows a higher level of frequency [3] Robert Koch Institute , COVID-19 in assault also take high proportions before. especially -Lehel, Ludwigsvorstadt-Isarvorstadt, Maxvorstadt and Schwabing-West. Germany, 2020, https://www.rki.de/.

This project was created within the Cartography M.Sc. programme – proudly co-funded by the Erasmus+ Programme of the European Union.