Planning and development expert Arif Hasan has spent more than five decades working with poor communities across Pakistan and development practitioners and institutes around the world. Over the last 50-plus
LAST month, officials and a team of consultants, assigned to prepare the Greater Karachi Region Plan 2047, made a presentation and invited comments and recommendations from stakeholders, including Karachi denizens
School transport systems must be regulated with a fair assessment of problems A student died in a road accident in Karachi on October 10. Protests erupted soon after. The protesting
As some new traffic rules introduced by the government have become a hot topic of discussion, a senior police official has said that the introduction of an automated traffic challan
THE past few weeks have been eventful for Karachi residents. The August rains plunged the city into total paralysis. Stranded vehicles on major roads and lanes in neighbourhoods established the
Collected Image The images of Pakistan’s largest cities drowning in knee-deep water during monsoon season are no longer shocking—they have become routine. For residents of Karachi, Lahore, Sialkot, Faisalabad, Sargodha,
NED University entrance can be seen in this image. — neduet.edu.pk/File Recent monsoon rains exposed deep flaws in Karachi’s infrastructure and civic management, causing unprecedented hardship for citizens. This was
At a recent discussion hosted by the Urban Resource Centre in Karachi, architects and town planners examined the city’s devastating monsoon flooding. A clear consensus emerged on what the rest
Experts have linked Karachi’s recurring urban flooding to blocked drainage systems and flawed city planning, warning that the situation will worsen unless urgent corrective measures are taken. At a discussion
The Urban Resource Centre (URC) on Tuesday organised talks by experts, architect and town planner Arif Hasan and NED Professor Dr Noman Ahmed, about the current flooding situation in big cities
