Webinar Series on "RESILIENT ARCHITECTURE & DYNAMIC CITY PLANNING", under sub-theme: Post COVID 19 Urban Futures (17/07/2020)
POST COVID19 URBAN FUTURES
India, like most parts of the world, has been adversely affected by the Corona (Covid-19 virus) pandemic and we are living the historic times of uncertainty while our cities, communities and rural landscapes and lifestyles are being adversely affected by the same. In such time periods, the paradigms of spatial planning as well as architecture & design are at thinking crossroads towards the future of cities and lives of people post the recovery from the pandemic. Vahement discussions in the scientific world as well as the planning and desing world are ongoing to find solutions of control and spread on one hand, and to find the causes and solutions after the world emerges as changed post these difficult times.
This webinar series aims to have a unique approach that shall benefit a multi-disciplinary group of learners, educators, policty makers and practitioners in the files of planning and architectur, and focus towards encouraging relevant discussioins in the current situation of the Covid-19 pandemic and its assoication with the Planning, Architecture and Desing community.
01. Non-Pharmaceutial Interventions (NPIs) of Pandemic Risk Management (PRM)
A discourse on the current scenario of the effects of pandemic and strategies which would help in developing a self sufficient planning unti and how it would respond to the day to day economic, social and cultural aspects in reference to Pandemic Risk Management Strategies. This study also focuses on developing a planning framework to derive appropriate development control rules for post COVID19 development considerations.
02. Post Covid-19 Urban Future spurs Rethinking of Mobility and City Planning
Cities are ever-evolving, comples and organic in nature, conceptualization and planning for the same is often challenging. Particularly, the high dense cities that are susceptible to global and local impacts such as COVID19 pandemics which require novel thinking and city planning approaches in multifold dimensions. A discourse on critical assesment of urban density, health infrastructure, mobility pattern and their impacts on liveablitiy standards in major cities to deduce strategies for the new upcoming cities and rethinking the way of city planning with reformed ideas.
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