Land & Housing
Pakistan Mapping Study
This study is about how mapping is done in Pakistan for planning purposes. It focuses in on the Lyari Town in Karachi which is an administrative area of the city inhabited for the most part...
Report on a Visit to Cambodia for the Asian Coalition for Housing Rights (ACHR), Bangkok
February 06, 2003 Discussions at the UPDF office. The following conclusions emerge: The UPDF office staff needs to understand the structure of local government, the new devolution plan and what this means for the poor....
Technology and Social Issues
There are three key terms in the topic of this seminar. These are (1) research and development (R&D), (2) low income housing / shelter and (3) appropriate technologies. All three terms are closely related to...
Reporting on ‘Slums’: A Case Study of Karachi, Pakistan
In low income settlements, with the second generation of low income settlement dwellers growing up, the demand for services and for a better level of service is increasing. The old process of lobbying for improvements...
Understanding Karachi: Planning and Reform for the Future
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ACHR Mission Report (Chapters by Arif Hasan)
The Asian Urban Context and the Poor This section is derived from the discussions that the Mission members had with ACHR partners and communities and from their personal experiences of working in development projects in...
Illegality and The Built Environment in Karachi
(Illegality has been put in parenthesis in the title and the text, because laws are strange things. Thousands of people were convicted under built environment related apartheid laws in South Africa and Israeli law and...
Report on an ACHR visit to Thailand, Cambodia and Vietnam
This report is the result of a visit to Bangkok, Phnom Penh, Hanoi, Ho Chi Minh City and Chiangmai between July 19 and August 04, 2001. It was a group visit. The group consisted of...
Working with Communities
This book documents the work of the Orangi Pilot Project-Research & Training Institute (OPP-RTI) with CBOs and NGOs in replicating its low cost sanitation programme which originated in the lanes and neighbourhood of Orangi in...
Housing for the Poor
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Scaling Up of the Orangi Pilot Project Programmes: Successes, Failures and Potential
In Karachi, where Orangi is located, the OPP, on the basis of its 20 years work with communities, has become involved in developing city level alternatives to government plans and is pressing for these alternatives to become policy.
