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Urban ordeals: More ‘unplanned’ areas in city make public utilities lose relevance
Water crisis in city needs to be understood in larger context.
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Urban planning: Transport sector in Karachi fails to plan for the common man
Using bicycles and carpooling to work are some ways to help ease burden on our roads.
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Recycling urban spaces: Need for strategic thinking to revitalise the old, not build more
KRC can draw inspiration from NYC’s High Line which has been redesigned as greenway.
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Saving the ecosystem: Engineered Wetlands - a sustainable solution for mangrove depletion
Apart from planting mangroves, we need to address reason for their decline.
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Projects to policy: Establishing contact with the communities
KAIRP aimed to regularise 2,320 katchi abadis across the country, with a total population of 5.5 million.
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Urban sprawl: Rethinking the management of Karachi’s slums
The population in katchi abadis, which was 50% in 1998, has now increased to 61%.
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Urban governance: ‘Karachi needs to do what LA did’
Governance in Pakistan should allow cities to be engines of growth.
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Solid waste management: Need for a cohesive approach to make up for failed attempts
Two separate projects, launched in the 1990s, were abandoned because of poor planning.
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Urban sprawl: Karachi needs one planning agency with teeth and control of its purse strings
Managing physical development in Karachi: a framework for change.
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Careless lounging by the beach can harm turtle habitats
GIS mapping of habitats in Karachi uncover new trends and urgency for preservation.