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Urban interventions: Model Town or mere copy, the case of a Lahore neighbourhood
The design was British, the intentions good but is this a solution for our housing crisis?.
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‘The mafia of antique dealers has stripped Shikarpur for the rich of Karachi’
Dr Anila Naeem spent five years mapping Shikarpur’s heritage sites, from its water hydrants to its havelis.
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Sindhi heritage: With exhaustive mapping, academic documents the slow disappearing of Shikarpur
Dr Anila Naeem took five years to make the inventory of the city’s historic sites.
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Who will be the scholars of Sindh tomorrow, its chroniclers, asks worried old guard
Our educational institutions are not training the new Dr Nabi Baksh Balochs.
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Socially responsive workers: ‘Perween Rahman’s salary was Rs32,000 the day she died’
Arif Hasan speaks of the late OPP director’s philosophy.
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Prime example: How Siemens measured Karachi - and 'flunked' it
Most of the data comes from the Karachi Master Plan 2020 and the Urban Resource Centre.
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Measure to manage: Do-it-yourself report cards are better than global city rankings
Don't wait for a foreign group to assess you, as some cities have learnt.
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Math and politics: Ranking the rankings
‘If cities were ranked by how they change people’s lives, ones like Karachi would dominate’.
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Kenya-Karachi connections: Big cities stunt the growth of others
Moving services to towns helps their economies, as Nairobi and Karachi prove.
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Risky business: Long commutes home attract crime in cities like Karachi and Nairobi
People living in slums on the outskirts are especially disadvantaged and the solution is mass transit.
