Ugly Karachi
KARACHI is becoming an increasingly anarchic, ugly and divided city — but is loved and glorified by its comparatively well-to-do citizens, public intellectuals and those in search of an identity. Loving Karachi is understandable but...
The Role of Architects in Society – An Interview with Archi Times
“I will not do projects that will irreparably damage the ecology and environment of the area in which they are located: I will not do projects that increase poverty, dislocate people and destroy the tangible...
‘Honour’ Killings
BY all accounts, over the last two decades ‘honour’ killings have increased manifold; they are going to increase even more in the foreseeable future. This is because a gender-segregated patriarchal society, which has traditionally used...
Neo-liberalism and its Impact on Urban Planning in South Asia
Neo-liberalism has brought about fundamental changes in vocabulary, concepts and relationships between different actors in the urban development drama. Download complete presentation: [Powerpoint Slide (64MB)] [PDF (41MB)]
Story of The Urban Resource Centre, Karachi, Pakistan
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Eclipse of Feudalism
WITHIN Pakistani intellectuals and academia, it is agreed that Pakistani society has changed. However, there is little articulation of the fundamental nature and processes of change and how public policy should address it. The most...
Road map needed
RESEARCH by the Urban Resource Centre Karachi has established that in the absence of a reasonable transport system a large percentage of women do not work, children often do not get to school, time and...
State of Transport
THE Sindh government’s Karachi Mass Transit Plan 2030 contains six bus rapid transit (BRT) corridors. At a well-attended public meeting arranged by the Sindh Environment Protection Agency, the Mass Transit Master Plan and the Environment...
Urban Land Reform
OVER the last two years, there have been numerous seminars, workshops and happenings around Karachi issues. The dominant theme has been one of nostalgia. Senior citizens have spoken about a once liberal city of bars,...
The Ethics of Building Great Communities
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Impacts of Economic Crises and Reform on the Informal Textile Industry in Karachi
To date, no empirical research has examined the local impacts of economic crises and reform on cities in Pakistan, including Karachi. This study addresses this gap by examining how the textile industry – as one...
