Abstract:
This article presents a hypothetical review of the envisaged
changes in built environments, institutionalized planning processes
and the real estate sector under the ‘new normal’ post-pandemic
situation. While the dominant discourse in planning and urban
development envisages a drastic change in human behavior,
responding to likely future pandemic situations, causing a major
transformation in the order of public spaces, the form of cities and
the methods of planning, this article discusses the uncertainties
associated with such ideologies. Further, it questions the possibility
of catastrophes to change built environments and the necessity of
pandemic-adaptive planning.
