Paper Title
Strategies for College Town Roorkee to Mitigate Pandemic through Tactical Urbanism
Abstract
Covid-19 pandemic has yield huge obstacles to global development pace, it has impacted a huge fraction of
population almost everyone in some way or other. In this we aim to explore the impact of pandemic on college towns, where
local economy is heavily reliant on students and educational Institutions. These towns have be drastically impacted by covid
even MIT, Cambridge and cornel university. One of Asia’s oldest institution IIT Roorkee has been analysed with the
impact of pandemic, The economic impact, student’s behaviour towards safety, potential vulnerable location have been
obtained. Further, spread of diseases has been simulated using SIR model and finally a set of strategies along with tactical
urbanism have been proposed.
Keywords - Pandemic, College Town, Covid’19, pandemic Stimulation, University Towns