Karthik Girish, Author at Planning Tank

Strengthening ‘Internal Resilience’ - Mumbai City

Strengthening ‘Internal Resilience’ within our cities (Part 5 of 5)

Compendium / By Karthik Girish / 03/09/2020 03/09/2020

This is a five-part series that revolves around understanding the current situation of Indian cities during the COVID-19 outbreak, and how resilience can be applied within our cities as a response to the resolutions of ‘social-distancing’. In this final part, we shall see some recommendations for strengthening ‘internal resilience’ within our cities. This post was created by …

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Impact of COVID-19 on master planning process (Part 4 of 5)

Compendium / By Karthik Girish / 02/09/2020 01/09/2020

This is a five-part series that revolves around understanding the current situation of Indian cities during the COVID-19 outbreak, and how resilience can be applied within our cities as a response to the resolutions of ‘social-distancing’. In this fourth part, we shall explore the impact of COVID-19 on master planning process. This post was created …

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Definition of Development for Urban Planners

Development Planning / By Karthik Girish / 01/09/2020 19/09/2020

Since the 1950s and 1960s, development is understood as an economic concept that applies economic and technical measures to efficiently use resources to provide economic growth and improve peoples’ living conditions (Rabie, 2016). Amartya Sen hints development as “capabilities in having the freedom to choose between different ways of living”. So is the consensus on …

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Pandemic hotspots: Result of urban density or urban form? (Part 3 of 5)

Compendium / By Karthik Girish / 31/08/2020 31/08/2020

This is a five-part series that revolves around understanding the current situation of Indian cities during the COVID-19 outbreak, and how resilience can be applied within our cities as a response to the resolutions of ‘social-distancing’. In this third part, we shall explore the commonalities between hotspots; urban form and urban density. This post was created …

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Von Thunen’s Model of Land Use and Agriculture

Planning Theory / By Karthik Girish / 30/08/2020 19/09/2020

Johann Heinrich von Thunen, who lived from 1783-1850, developed the Von Thunen’s Model of Land Use. Before the industrial revolution, he proposed this model in 1826, in the book entitled The Isolated State. He was a very skilled farmer and was knowledgeable in economics and used this model to look at and understand the different ways people …

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History of Bombay and New York City Pandemics (Part 2 of 5)

Compendium / By Karthik Girish / 29/08/2020 31/08/2020

This is a five-part series that revolves around understanding the current situation of Indian cities during the COVID-19 outbreak, and how resilience can be applied within our cities as a response to the resolutions of ‘social-distancing’. In this second part, we shall discuss about how Bombay and New York responded to disease outbreaks. This post was …

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Applying resilience to Indian city plans against pandemics (Part 1 of 5)

Compendium / By Karthik Girish / 26/08/2020 29/08/2020

This is a five-part series that revolves around understanding the current situation of Indian cities during the COVID-19 outbreak, and how resilience can be applied within our cities as a response to the resolutions of ‘social-distancing’. In this first part, we shall discuss about what resilience means to our cities. This post was created by …

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