Archiloop India Foundation | May 23, 2020 "Kanad Pankaj Jha is a project manager, a city planner, and an environmental scientist based in Vancouver. He has extensive experience in leading small, medium-sized, and large scale projects in Canada, South Asia, Africa, and Middle-East. He is the author of two books on smart settlements, notably, 'Planning Smart Neighbourhoods in Indian cities' and 'Renewal for Smart Cities' respectively. His interest is in exploring the linkages between technology and sustainability in the context of settlements of the global south." Webinar:- https://bit.ly/3rLkcGP Presentation: - https://bit.ly/3sQ7Azt Get Connected Instagram:- https://bit.ly/2PBEGEm YouTube:- https://bit.ly/2ZD3y1o Facebook:- https://bit.ly/3jnwP7Q LinkedIn:- https://bit.ly/3u0VbsO Twitter:- https://bit.ly/3curGtf Global network of attendees:- https://bit.ly/31rZHnK #stayintheloop Archiloop India Foundation contactus@archiloopindia.in www.archiloopindia.in

1. URBAN MANAGEMENT
POST-COVID 19 PANDEMIC
Webinar presentation by Kanad Pankaj Jha,
May 23rd, 2020

2. * https://covid.who.int
COVID – 19 WORLDWIDE

3. PANDEMIC CHANGING URBAN LIFE
* https://unsplash.com/

4. PANDEMIC CHANGING URBAN LIFE
❖Cities becoming redundant
❖Anti-urbanist wave emerging
❖Loneliness, depression among millennials
❖Hunger, sleeplessness and exploitation of the urban poor
❖Weakness of urban infrastructure
✓Transportation
✓Health
✓Basic services
*(Ribet, 2020)

5. ❖ Lockdown changing urban dynamics
❖ Environment bouncing back
❖ People enjoying “car free street”
❖ Bogota, Berlin, and Mexico city expanding pedestrianization
❖ Urban poor worst affected
PANDEMIC CHANGING URBAN LIFE
*(Ribet, 2020)
* https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020/03/chaos-hunger-india-coronavirus-lockdown-200327094522268.html

6. PREDICTIONS
❖Families may migrate to suburbs
❖Youngsters could migrate to urban centres
❖Job loss and unemployment
✓Tourism
✓Hospitality
✓Customer service
✓Construction
❖Contact tracing and social distancing may be
normalized
❖Retrofitting
❖Robots
❖Artificial Intelligence
*(Florida, et al., 2020)
* https://unsplash.com/

7. PREDICTIONS
❖Diversified and decentralized supply chain
distribution
❖Value additions in goods and services
❖Intelligent public transportation system
❖Updated public safety protocols
❖Development of small towns and
modernization of rural areas (ICT)
❖Change in design and construction
methods
✓Timber
✓Localized construction methods
*(Florida, et al., 2020)

8. NOTABLE EXISTING MEASURES
❖Hong Kong and Singapore
✓Early preparedness
✓SARS epidemic (2002-2004) paved way for
better health system
✓Public Health Response and Monitoring
System
✓Managed COVID -19 effectively
✓Strict fines for violators
✓Mortality rates: 0.0037% (Hong Kong) and
0.00083% (Singapore) as on date
*(Dasgupta, 2020) * https://nationalpost.com/health/how-taiwan-and-
singapore-managed-to-contain-covid-19-while-
letting-normal-life-go-on

9. NOTABLE EXISTING MEASURES
❖Taiwan
✓SARS epidemic (2002-2004) paved way for better health system
✓Efficient and effective isolation
✓Tight control on international travel
✓Contact identification
✓Effective health data base usage (via merger between travel history and
health insurance of denizens)
✓Universal health coverage
✓Early resource stockpiling (N95 masks)
✓Temperature measurement bands
✓Mortality 0.01% as on date
*(Blackwell, 2020)

10. NOTABLE EXISTING MEASURES
❖Canada
✓ Financial assistance for incentives to stay at home
✓ $2000 per person per month for up to 4 months in case of
layoff
✓ Citizens
✓ Permanent residents
✓ Students
✓ Free public transportation (with alternate seating) and reduced
frequency
✓ Health coverage for everyone
✓ Mortality 0.07% as on date

11. ❖Digital democracy (COLLECTIVE INTELLIGENCE)
✓Enhances effectiveness
✓Created when distributed groups of people work together with
the help of technology to mobilize more information, ideas and
insights to solve a problem.
❖Examples
✓iGeolise
✓Kings College London Reporting App
❖Narrow ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE in governance
✓Data base gathering and mapping
(Kathy Peach; Aleks Berditchevskaia, 2020)
NOTABLE EXISTING MEASURES

12. ❖Volunteer efforts of the denizens cross
culturally
❖Focus on pedestrianization: 15 Minute City
❖Efficient use of public space
❖Adaptive reuse
NOTABLE EXISTING MEASURES
*(Klaus, 2020) & (Ribet, 2020)

13. NOTABLE EXISTING MEASURES
❖Inference
✓ Learning from similar experiences
✓ Robust health infrastructure
✓ Early resource identification and efficient utilization
✓ Database upgradation
✓ Data oriented measures
✓ Inclusive development
✓ Economic resilience
✓ Localized urban planning
“Early bird catches the worm”

14. LONG TERM DEVELOPMENTAL GOALS
❖ Paris Agreement
❖ Sustainable Development Goals
❖ New Urban Agenda
✓ Zero carbon emission by 2050
* https://www.international.gc.ca/world-monde/issues_development-
enjeux_developpement/priorities-priorites/agenda-programme.aspx?lang=eng
* https://www.futurelearn.com/courses/sustainability-society-
and-you/0/steps/4618

15. ❖ Generating more actionable data: Setting up integrated
public health monitoring and response system, through
empowerment of and financial aid to ULBS
❖ Investing in cities as systems: Focusing on giving cities the
support (technical) and resources (data) to create integrated
social, economic and infrastructure strategies at grassroots
TRANSFORMATIONAL ASPECTS (NEXT 5 YEARS)
*(Dasgupta, 2020)

16. ❖ Building Economic Resilience
✓ Informal sector workers, from (day laborers to Uber drivers) lack formal
contracts and insurance
✓ Most vulnerable to the coronavirus and/or hunger
❖ Informal sector jobs are crucial to urban economies
✓ Stronger social and fiscal safety nets for informal and low-wage workers
needed
✓ Targeted income support and increased access to social and economic
services
*(Dasgupta, 2020)
TRANSFORMATIONAL ASPECTS (NEXT 5 YEARS)

17. ❖ 15 Minute City Concept
TRANSFORMATIONAL ASPECTS (NEXT 5 YEARS)
“There are six things that make an
urbanite happy”, mayoral advisor Prof.
Carlos Moreno told Liberation.
“Dwelling in dignity, working in proper
conditions, [being able to gain]
provisions, well-being, education and
leisure. To improve quality of life, you
need to reduce the access radius for
these functions.” That commitment to
bringing all life’s essentials to each
neighborhood means creating a more
thoroughly integrated urban fabric,
where stores mix with homes, bars mix
with health centers, and schools with
office buildings” (Moreno, 2020)

18. ❖ Ensuring access to core services for all
✓ Achieving livable density – a balance where benefits of
agglomeration are significantly higher than the cost of
congestion.
✓ Density is a precondition for effective urban service provision.
✓ It’s the lack of access to essential services such as water,
housing and health care, that has exacerbated the challenge
of responding effectively to COVID-19.
*(Dasgupta, 2020)
TRANSFORMATIONAL ASPECTS (5 – 10 YEARS)

19. TRANSFORMATIONAL ASPECTS (10 YEARS AND MORE)
❖ Mainstreaming food security in urban
planning
❖ Integrating public health in urban and
territorial planning
❖ Mainstreaming technology in urban
affairs (CI, AI)
❖ Building a circular economy
❖ Inclusive development (LGBTQ and
other minority)
❖ Universal basic income
❖ Social distancing norms
❖ Strengthening tech related small
business
❖ Public participation in decision making
*(UN-HABITAT & WHO, 2020)

20. • Blackwell, T., 2020. Health. [Online]
Available at: https://nationalpost.com/health/how-taiwan-and-singapore-managed-to-contain-covid-19-while-letting-normal-life-go-on
[Accessed 20 May 2020].
• Dasgupta, A., 2020. How COVID-19 Can Drive Transformational Change in Cities. [Online]
Available at: https://www.csc-blog.org/en/how-covid-19-can-drive-transformational-change-cities
[Accessed 20 May 2020].
• Florida, R. et al., 2020. Foreign Policy: Analysis. [Online]
Available at: https://foreignpolicy.com/2020/05/01/future-of-cities-urban-life-after-coronavirus-pandemic/
[Accessed 20 May 2020].
• Kathy Peach; Aleks Berditchevskaia, 2020. Nesta Blog. [Online]
Available at: https://www.nesta.org.uk/blog/mobilising-collective-intelligence-tackle-coronavirus-threat/
[Accessed 21 May 2020].
• Klaus, I., 2020. CityLab: Design. [Online]
Available at: https://www.citylab.com/design/2020/03/coronavirus-urban-planning-global-cities-infectious-disease/607603/
[Accessed 19 May 2020].
• Moreno, C., 2020. alk Wellington (New Zealand) – “The 15 Minute City” – 1er mars 2020. [Online]
Available at: http://www.moreno-web.net/talk-wellington-new-zealand-the-15-minute-city-1er-mars-2020/
[Accessed 21 May 2020].
• Ribet, L., 2020. How will the pandemic change urban life?. [Online]
Available at: https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/covid19/2020/04/28/how-will-the-pandemic-change-urban-life/
[Accessed 21 May 2020].
• UN-HABITAT & WHO, 2020. Integrating health in urban and territorial planning: A sourcebook. Geneva: WHO & UN HABITAT.
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