ACCORDING to media reports and the World Bank website, the Bank has approved a multimillion-dollar loan for six projects in Karachi. These include $40m for making the Karachi Water and
Urban poor communities are generating their own evidence to uncover the reasons – overlooked by authorities – that Karachi floods. Women’s role has increasingly gained importance in social movements that
This project was undertaken in June, 2018 as part of my internship at the Urban Resource Center in Karachi. Data collection for this project took three and a half months.
Transport-related problems in Karachi have increased considerably in recent decades. Traffic congestion contributes to increased air and noise pollution, leading to health problems, high accident rates, and environmental degradation. It
Pakistan is experiencing an unprecedented urban housing crisis. Low-rise, low-income urban settlements are rapidly and informally becoming high-rise, high-density informal settlements, with all the physical, social and environmental problems of
An Exploration into the Potential and Problems of the Rapid Increase in the Use of Motorcycles as a Transport Mode in Karachi, Pakistan By Arif Hasan and Mansoor Raza (25