Fruit vendors and other hawkers at a bazaar in Karachi | Courtesy the writer This article draws upon the work I have done at different times with Architects Asiya Sadiq
Project may take two years to complete, affecting some 1,200 houses in the process The prime objective of the construction relief and amnesty scheme is to revive the coronavirus-hit national
No matter how industriously master plans of cities are made, because of the prevalent bureaucratic work culture the operationalization of these will always remain problematic. The purpose of this article
THE federal cabinet has approved the 2017 census results. Some political parties, including those with greater stakes in Karachi, have announced their opposition to this decision. The city’s population figures
One day architect, provocateur, town planner Arif Hasan went to see Shafiqur Rahman Paracha, the bureaucrat who was in charge of resettling people uprooted by the building of the Lyari
How can city planning be made more inclusive? Underpasses, flyovers and parking plazas are often presented as the epitome of development. But such expensive interventions usually fail to improve neighbourhoods
KARACHI: Sustainable development remains a distant dream in Pakistan, as the government fails to consider an integrated planning approach, which takes into account the aspirations of communities and the vulnerability
THE nullahs of Karachi have lost their water-carrying capacity because of markets, administrative and related buildings and car parks of the Sindh government, road infrastructure, elite colonies and katchi abadis
