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ARCHI TIMES PUBLISHED by the PROFESSIONALS for the PROFESSIONALS INSIDE the FUTURE of KARACHI's This Issue WORLD NEWS OF ARCHITECTURE Vol. 36, No. 11 ISSN No. 2073-9001 November 2020 News and Commentary of the Profession.... ARCHI TIMES www.architimesonline.com PUBLISHED BY THE PROFESSIONALS FOR THE PROFESSIONALS INSIDE THE FUTURE OF KARACHI'S This Issue "PUBLIC' SPACES RAVI CITY Ravi City, Island Projects to boost economy: : Prime Minister CITY PLANNING Violation of building rules, lack of coordinated planning BY: AR. ARIF HASAN options, such as streets in katchi The Lost Street Market over for the exclusive use of elite MASTER PLAN abadis where children play, women Pavement market for and middle-class functions, what Public space' has recently socialise and small neighbourhood clothes in Saddar does it mean for the city? How International firms submit bids for become a buzzword in the world businesses establish themselves. For example, between Ghazi can urban planners and Islamabad Master Plan revision of urban planning. The term has Very often, residents block through Abdullah Shah's Mazaar and the policymakers avoid further also filtered into Pakistan traffic from the lane, turning it into Bahria Icon Tower, there is a lane dividing the rich and the poor? although there have been a protected public space. that goes from the shrine to the With developments such as individuals and organisations who This article is not specifically sea. After visiting the shrine, the Dolmen Mall, and related have worked, against great odds, about these spaces or their origins. It people used to walk down this offices and car parking on the issue for decades without is about how, in elite and middle- lane to the sea and, on the way, requirements, accessing the beach employing the term. income areas, public space is being visit the aquarium and the Play is becoming progressively difficult There are many types of urban taken over from the public domain for Land, both of which had been in for low-income visitors. The space. One type is a part of a larger the exclusive use of elite or middle- existence for more than 50 years hawkers of this lane have been city or neighbourhood's official class functions. It is also about how, in but not anymore. Millions of scattered to different locations plan, such as parks and the designing and redesigning of Karachiites and visitors from and they complain that their playgrounds. In Karachi as a whole, public space, government agencies other urban and rural areas of earnings have substantially much of this space has been ignore the functions for which the Pakistan have made this journey, reduced. Many of them have given ARIF HASAN illegally taken over for real estate space was originally being used in because of which a well- up their traditional work and TALKING ARCHITECURE development. Another type is order to reflect politicians', architects', organised market for food, taken to selling food or getting acquired by communities for the or planners' points of view of how seashell trinkets, art work and jobs with contractors and as purposes for recreation, such a space should be used. In the souvenirs developed along the service staff to small businesses in entertainment and economic process, they invest in designs that are lane. None of this now exists and the area. Apart from the economic activity from 'leftover' spaces of inappropriate for the public and which you cannot get to the sea from loss, the death of the street market official planning, such as wide require huge maintenance costs, this lane either. The lane now is also a huge cultural loss. pavements, around bus stops and which are partly recovered by leads to the Beach View Park The Beach View Park obstructs formal markets. If such spaces charging a fee from visitors. If this where you have to pay to get in. access to the sea and is hardly used survive long enough, they become process continues, then very soon The exit from the mazaar to the because of the fee that has to be an important part of community there will be no space for the poor in lane has also been blocked. paid for entering it and the fact that life. Yet another type evolves out of elite neighbourhoods, dividing the city As more and more spaces are it does not open out on to the sea. necessity and the absence of further between rich and poor areas. lost to the public and are taken Continued on Page # 26 NED UNIVERSITY ASSIGNED TO CONDUCT STUDY ON CITY'S DRAINAGE SYSTEM BY TAHIR SIDDIQUI The meeting was attended by completed within next two provide technical assistance to the Chief Secretary Mumtaz Shah and months and then the drainage provincial government in removing Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali WB`s Melinda Good. Mr Shah system of the city would be design defects from LBOD. Shah said that the recent heavy said that the recent heavy rains designed accordingly, he said. The WB country chief said rains wreaked havoc on Karachi had caused urban flooding in LBOD`s design defects The that his technical team would FIRDOUS SHAMIM NAQVI and Mirpurkhas divisions, Karachi and inundated hundreds CM said that there were design extend full support to the TALKING ENGINEERING therefore, he decided to of villages in Mirpurkhas division defects in the 385-kilometre-long provincial government in conduct a study of the drainage and parts of Hyderabad division. LBOD, which started flowing development of a drainage system in the metropolis by the `I have assigned the NED backward during high tide in the system in Karachi and removing NED University and would University to conduct a study on sea. `Therefore, instead of design defects of LBOD. make necessary changes on the the drainage system in the city disposing of saline water or WB to finance Yellow Line The design of the Left Bank Outfall and suggest ways and means rainwater the LBOD starts chief minister said that the World Drain (LBOD). toimprove it so that disposal of submerging the nearby localities,` Bank was going to construct the This he said while talking to water could be made in natural he said, adding that he had 22-km-long Yellow Line bus rapid World Bank`s Country Director gravity,` he added. decided to remove the design transit corridor with an estimated Najy Benhassine, who called on The NED University had defects from LBOD. cost of Rs61 billion, including its him here at CM House. started its study and it would be He urged the World Bank to Continued on Page # 4 ARCHI TIMES NOVEMBER 2020 2 NEWS RAVI CITY, ISLAND PROJECTS TO BOOST ECONOMY: PRIME MINISTER Prime Minister said that have expressed willingness to Pakistan’s coastline was not only develop master plan and conduct conducive to tourism and world- environmental studies for the class urban construction but had Island projects. also the potential to create The meeting was convened to innumerable opportunities for apprise the prime minister of the foreign investment. progress made so far on both the Chairing a meeting of working projects. Sindh Governor Imran groups of Pakistan Island Ismail and Chief Secretary Punjab Development Authority (PIDA) Jawad Rafique Malik attended the and Ravi Urban Development meeting via video link. Authority, Imran said that these Imran said that these major major projects would have a projects would have a positive positive impact on the national impact on the national economy economy and the lives of the and the lives of the common man, common man. adding that these projects would During the meeting the Prime lead to the development of local Minister was informed that several industries as well as create new international companies have employment opportunities. shown keen interest to invest in Emphasising that the projects Ravi City project in Lahore and the would produce immense two islands off the Karachi coast, opportunities of investment and while several other companies employment, Imran said that the Ravi City project would reduce the population pressure on Lahore and also add new dimensions to the urban planning in Pakistan. An official statement of the meeting highlighted that the projects were being developed on the basis of partnership instead of loans and international institutions and investors have shown interest to invest in these projects. For the first time in the history of the country, officials informed the prime minister, the Ravi City and the cities to be built on the islands would be built in accordance with the principles of a green city. The Ravi Development Authority chairman said that the survey of 18,600 acres of land for construction had been completed, adding that the project would not affect the local population and there would be no need to evict or relocate anyone. The chairman said that the Ravi City project would set an example in the region in terms of international standard housing as well as drainage, availability and protection of groundwater resources and environmental protection. During the meeting, the PIDA chairman informed the prime minister about the interest of a large number of international companies in preparing the master plan as well as conducting environmental studies of the island projects. Meanwhile, during the weekly meeting of the National Coordinating Committee for Housing, Construction and Development, the State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) governor informed the prime minister that special desks would be set up in 50% bank branches in all the districts to provide loans for construction. The Punjab chief secretary said that applications for construction work on 44 million square feet had been received from all over the province while approval had already been given for the construction on 20 million square feet. After the commencement of construction work on 44 million square feet in Punjab, the chief secretary said, economic activities worth about Rs1 trillion were expected.
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