Pakistan, Azerbaijan join hands for resilient, sustainable urban planning
- 01-Oct-2023
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan and Azerbaijan on Sunday join hands for a climate-resilient and sustainable urban planning keeping in view the real challenges faced by the region, ARY News reported. The development came during a meeting between Caretaker Planning Minister for Development and Special Initiatives, Muhammad Sami Saeed and Chairman State Committee on Urban Planning and Architecture, […]
Pitfalls Of Urban Planning
- 06-Jul-2023
Pakistan is a quintessential example of the almost extinct town planning that has rendered its urban dwellings ghost towns and reduced their populations to slum-dwellers. The overcrowded boisterous cities are environmentally unsustainable, racked with anomie and on occasion at the brink of civil war. These cities constitute microcosm highlighting the inequality and biased planning that […]
Rains expose flaws of urban planning in Pakistan
- 20-Aug-2022
The recent spell of rains in the length and breadth of Pakistan has once again exposed the serious flaws in the urban planning in the country. The impression conveyed by the chaotic living conditions after the rains shows that the country is a quintessential example of the almost extinct town planning that has rendered its […]
EXPLAINER: Can Green Line alone resolve Karachi transport woes?
- 17-Dec-2021
At the presstime, the number of routes where buses run across Karachi stands at about 50 with hardly over 5,000 buses doing rounds. On average a bus transports across the day about 257 passengers. By that account, if all the buses operate at their full capacity, they can still cater to only 1,285,000 passengers daily […]