Karachi
The Land Issue
$86.51
- Paperback
256 pages
- Release Date
1 January 2021
Summary
Karachi is one of the fastest-growing cities in the world. It is Pakistan’s only port and the major contributor to the country’s economy. In addition, it is also a diverse city with its population politically divided along ethnic lines. These three factors make the urban land and that on the city’s fringe a highly contested commodity: federal, provincial, and local land-owning agencies, corporate sector interests, formal and informal developers, international capital, and military cantonments…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780190708689 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0190708689 |
| Author: | Arif Hasan, Mansoor Raza, Saeed Uddin Ahmed, Noman Ahmed, Asiva Sadiq-Polack, Moizza B. Sarwar |
| Publisher: | OUP Pakistan |
| Imprint: | OUP Pakistan |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 256 |
| Release Date: | 1 January 2021 |
| Weight: | 334g |
| Dimensions: | 13mm x 139mm x 213mm |
Arif Hasan
Arif Hasan is an architect/planner dealing with urban planning and development issues, particularly those concerning Asia and Pakistan.
Noman Ahmed has a PhD in Civil and Building Engineering from Loughborough University and is Professor and Chairman, Department of Architecture and Planning at the NED University of Engineering and Technology, Karachi.
Mansoor Raza is a freelance researcher with various action researches to his credit.
Asiya Sadiq-Polack is Associate Professor at the Department of Architecture and Planning at the NED University of Engineering and Technology, Karachi.
Saeed Uddin Ahmed is Lecturer at the Department of Architecture and Planning at the NED University of Engineering and Technology, Karachi.
Moizza B. Sarwar is a DPhil student at the Department of Social Policy, Sommerville College, Oxford. Her current research builds on her masters work on informal settlements in Cape Town, South Africa, and Karachi, Pakistan.
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