Development & Poverty
The Informal City
This paper will deal with the physical and social changes that have taken place over the past two decades in informal settlements and in the informal provision of services and jobs.
Urban Poverty Alleviation – Policy Orientation
Poverty alleviation is a term and concept that is being used, discussed and applied in a big way in Pakistan for the last couple of years. This term is creating a mindset that increasingly ignores the causes of poverty and seeks only to address their effects.
A Note on Criteria for Listing Historic Buildings in Karachi and its Relationship to a Larger Conservation Plan
Criteria for the final listing of historic buildings have to be prepared as a part of a larger conservation plan and have to be derived from the research work that is required for the preparation of such a plan. The manner in which the conservation law is applied and the incentives and support mechanisms that go with it, also have to be part of the conservation plan. For the development of such a plan there are a number of activities that are necessary.
Ishtirak-e-Aamal
The blurb for this book is in Urdu. Please click on the thumbnail below for a clearer view and explanation of the book.
Working with Government
The success of OPP’s extensive low cost sanitation programme in Karachi’s working class settlement of Orangi demonstrates that low income communities can finance and manage the construction of an underground sanitation system at the neighbourhood...
Physical Infrastructure: Urbanisation and Urban Services
Outline of a Paper on Physical Infrastructure: Urbanisation and Urban Services; For the Development and Planning Division, Government of Pakistan
Housing Crisis in Central Asia
Independent states have emerged in Central Asia following the collapse of the Soviet Union. The media has paid considerable attention to the larger economic and social aspects of the transition of these states from a...
Note for Members of the Government’s Task Force on Poverty Alleviation
The term poverty alleviation is creating a mindset that increasingly ignores the causes of poverty and seeks only to address their effects. The fact that poverty is the creation of macro and micro level economic and physical planning is ignored.
Responsibility Of The Press: A Citizen’s View
I have been asked to present the citizen’s view point regarding the responsibility of the press. However, I can only present the point of view of a citizen. Moreover, it is a biased view point; biased by the work I do and which is related to physical and social development.
Urban Housing Policies and Approaches in a Changing Asian Context
Major changes are taking place in Asia, both at the macro level and “on the ground”. Liberalisation of the economy, strategic readjustment, the tourist and manufacturing boom and large scale demographic changes are creating both...
Views on Housing and Physical Planning Section of 9th Five Year Plan
Over 80 per cent of all housing in Pakistan is provided by the informal sector because of the following reasons.
Possible Directions for the Regulations and Bye-Laws Sub-Committee of the Oversee Committee of Karachi Building Control Authority (KBCA)
1. General 1.1 Zoning regulations and bye-laws have to respond to the needs of the city and the trends and directions of growth and change. It is essential to know these trends. The Karachi Development...
