Planning for resilience: Preparing resilient planners in Mamallapuram, India
Publication Date
1-1-2020
Document Type
Contribution to a Book
Publication Title
Reflective Planning Practice: Theory, Cases, and Methods
Editor
Richard Willson
DOI
10.4324/9780429290275-7
First Page
129
Last Page
151
Abstract
The plan was for the US students to spend the fall semester of 2009 learning about planning for resilience and about the Indian geographical, historical, and sociopolitical context. It organizes the observations in three elements: planner-as-person, interpretation of context, and reasoning and methods in the planning episode itself. This chapter adds comments on how the author interpreted context at two levels: context for the project itself with the client; and context for managing the studio class, analogous to managing a planning team. It leads to observations about practical judgments made during the planning episode and broader takeaways for planning. Planning in India is a complex endeavor, shaped by the legacy of colonialism and the vestiges of British town planning that created multiple layers of bureaucracy. The combined educator/planner role played in this planning episode speaks to other situations where planners are conveners of planning efforts by community members and interest groups.
Department
Urban and Regional Planning
Recommended Citation
Laxmi Ramasubramanian. "Planning for resilience: Preparing resilient planners in Mamallapuram, India" Reflective Planning Practice: Theory, Cases, and Methods (2020): 129-151. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429290275-7
