Urban Planning Strategies for Social and Religious Conventions:Approach for Smart and Temporary Services

Abstract

India is a country rich in culture and beliefs, we believe in the Idea that communal meetings and gatherings help in enriching our culture and keeping the essence alive, may it be a small wedding function, a kirtan evening or urban level conventions like Jayanti or religious fairs. Our cities becoming denser and hence, host more such gatherings. In such scenario, the need of planned, and computed approaches of crown management becomes a necessity. Cities in which such events are being hosted must cater to different types of need for the variety of crowd that approaches to it. The planning challenges for such events and gatherings led urban planners to embark on new studies that offer entirely new design approaches for crowd management. And on another hand the aspect of such design being temporary must be also considered. This article discusses planning strategies that may help any city in catering any such event and again getting back to normal functioning without hindering much the normal urban transactions. An example of Simhasth Maha Kumbh, 2016 Ujjain is taken to learn from and make the outcomes substantial for the study in general. The aim is to come with a strategic plan for any city to cater mass gathering related to religious, cultural and social celebrations.