ahmedabad post covid urban planning which includes innovative home designs to neighbourhoods to ward level planning that minimizes the risks of disease spread in future will be at the centre of concern for the newly elected president of institute of town planners india itpi n k patel the itpi is a premier national body of town planners patel will be the second gujarati in a gap of 48 years after town planner h k mewada the one who planned gandhinagar city and also assisted the chandigarh project led by le corbusier in the 1970spatel a developer in the city is a post graduate and a gold medallist from the cept university he later worked for ahmedabad urban development authority auda as a town planner and then took voluntary retirement to start his own real estate and construction firm post covid world will require a new direction in planning right from designing homes neighbourhoods public spaces to wards a new thinking has to be infused to make our cities safer and also curb pandemic spread said patel he added also in the wake of large scale migration to cities we need policies that make our cities more inclusive patel said that dedicated efforts would be required to ensure that urban infrastructure kept pace with its population growth