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Shifting Paradigms
G.K.Bhat
TARU

Planning/Design Time Scales
Decision Timeframe

Life of structures

Cimate Change
Nuclear reactor
Indian administrator
Bridges

City planner
Real Estate developer

Multistoried flats

Indian politician
Traditional house

Orchard owner
Tribal house, NE India

Arid farmer
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Addressing Transforming (Time) , Transitional (Space) and
Transient (Shock) Challenges
• Expansion & Densification (Transformation)
• Changing Rural urban boundary issues (Transitional areas

undergoing transformation)

• Economy

• Resource use intensification (transformation)
• Climate change (Transformation & Transient processes)
• Resource uncertainties
• Shrinking edges ( sea level rise/Flood plains)
• Disasters (Floods)
Incorporating these phenomena in planning process –
A challenge to be addressed by urban planners and citizens
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Paths to Anticipatory culture
• Rediscovering time scales
• understanding process of change (Looking back- looking forward)

• We are victims of past, what we do would impact our own children)

• Developing common visions across multiple stockholders
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Scenarios and visioning exercises
Worst case scenario building
Understanding and including uncertainties
Multi-stakeholder Institutions>> consensus ( Surat Climate change trust)

• Understanding limits Natural/hydrological/Marine boundaries
• Consumer >> Conservationist culture (maintaining stocks and limiting
outflows)
• Learning to Internalise uncertainties and surprises in planning

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