Current Stories An unfinished end As per standard definitions, a public-private partnership involves collaboration between a government agency and a private-sector company that can be Read more
Current Stories Living in Karachi TIMES are challenging for urban dwellers living in the corridors of the Karachi Circular Railway, nullahs and other similar locations. Read more
Current Stories KARACHI’S STREET ECONOMY Fruit vendors and other hawkers at a bazaar in Karachi | Courtesy the writer This article draws upon the work Read more
Current Stories Development and displacement: Federal govt to aid extension of city’s storm drains Project may take two years to complete, affecting some 1,200 houses in the process The prime objective of the construction Read more
Current Stories Planning the city No matter how industriously master plans of cities are made, because of the prevalent bureaucratic work culture the operationalization of Read more
Current Stories Census & the city THE federal cabinet has approved the 2017 census results. Some political parties, including those with greater stakes in Karachi, have Read more
Current Stories How Karachi Developed by Jugard One day architect, provocateur, town planner Arif Hasan went to see Shafiqur Rahman Paracha, the bureaucrat who was in charge Read more
Current Stories THE FAULT IN OUR MEGAPROJECTS How can city planning be made more inclusive? Underpasses, flyovers and parking plazas are often presented as the epitome of Read more
Current Stories In the face of demolitions, very little will be left of Karachi KARACHI: Sustainable development remains a distant dream in Pakistan, as the government fails to consider an integrated planning approach, which Read more
Current Stories Marginalized Majority THE nullahs of Karachi have lost their water-carrying capacity because of markets, administrative and related buildings and car parks of Read more
