ISSN 1728-7715 JOURNAL OF RESEARCH IN ARCHITECTURE AND PLANNING ARCHITECTURE RESEARCH IN OF JOURNAL JOURNAL OF RESEARCH IN ARCHITECTURE AND PLANNING Vol. 15, 2013 (Second Issue) Vol. VOLUME FIFTEEN 2013 (Second Issue) ISSN 1728-7715 JOURNAL OF RESEARCH IN ARCHITECTURE AND PLANNING VOLUME FIFTEEN 2013 (Second Issue) JOURNAL OF RESEARCH IN ARCHITECTURE AND PLANNING Editorial Board S.F.A. Rafeeqi Noman Ahmed Anila Naeem Asiya Sadiq Polack Fariha Amjad Ubaid M. Fazal Noor Shabnam Nigar Mumtaz Editorial Associates Farida Abdul Ghaffar Fariha Tahseen Suneela Ahmed Layout and Composition Mirza Kamran Baig Panel of Referees Muzzaffar Mahmood (Ph.D., Professor, PAF KIET, Karachi) Arif Hasan (Architect and Planner, Hilal-e-Imtiaz) Bruno De Meulder (Ph.D., Professor, K.U. Leuven, Belgium) Kamil Khan Mumtaz (ARIBA, Tamgha-e-Imtiaz) Michiel Dehaene (Ph.D., Professor, TUe Eindhoven, Netherlands) Mohammed Mahbubur Rahman (Ph.D., Professor, Kingdom University, Bahrain) Mukhtar Husain (B.Arch., M.Arch., Turkey) Shahid Anwar Khan (Ph.D., AIT, Bangkok Professor, Curtin University, Australia) Naveed Mazhar (Lecturer, NAIT, Alberta, Canada) Pervaiz Vandal (Senior Practicing Architect and Academic) Department of Architecture and Planning, Published by NED University of Engineering and Technology, Karachi, Pakistan. Printed by Khwaja Printers, Karachi. © Copyrights with the Editorial Board of the Journal of Research in Architecture and Planning CONTENTS Editors Note vii Nausheen H. Anwar Thinking Beyond Engines of Growth: Re-Conceptualization Urban Planning 01 Discourse in Pakistan Ramsha Rehman, Impact of Cultural Shift on the Green-Scape of Lahore, From Mughals to 11 Affira Atta and Present (2014) Seemin Aslam Suneela Ahmed Role of Architects and Localness of the Global City: Discussion of 25 Operationalization of Key Theories for Understanding the Notions of Localness in Built Form Akanchha Jain Revitalization the Central Core of Aminabad, Lucknow 45 Hira Ovais Community and Architecture: Contribution Retrospect in Karachi During 55 The British Raj - Case of Saddar Bazaar Book Review Abdul Rehman Mapping Lahore: Tracing Historic Geography of a City through Maps 74 A Review by Fariha Tehseen, Project Architect, Heritage Cell, Department of Architecure and Planning, NED University of Engineering and Technology, Karachi Journal of Research in Architecture and Planning: Vol. 15, 2013 (Second Issue) - Architecture, Urban Design & Planning v EDITORS NOTE This issue of JRAP includes five very interesting papers. First article questions the notion of considering cities as engines of growth. The author has emphasized the importance of citizens experience in understanding the various phenomenon and emerging complexities in cities. The narratives for review and analysis have been derived from secondary cities, situation accounts of migrations and mega projects in large urban contexts. It concludes by hinting that the city learning must be derived from multiple sources, not confined to morphological ingredients alone. The paper by Ramsha Rehman et. al. attempts to trace the trends in changing greenscape of Lahore from Mughal to present times. Building on the morphological composition of Lahore landscape that was studded with gardens of diverse typologies the paper excerpts from the historical developments during Mughal and British era. With a focused review of case studies, the paper concludes by outlining the challenges now experienced in the way of managing and restoring the Lahore gardens. Role of architects in establishing the localness of built form is discussed in the paper by Suneela Ahmed. It builds upon various case examples from across the sub-continent to illustrate architects work in the context of localness. Urban morphology, natural resources, social and climatic responsiveness are parameters explored in this study. Akanccha Jains paper addresses the challenges in revitalizing the Aminabad location in Lucknow in India. Based upon the extensive exploration of influencing planning parameters, the study offers useful proposals to address the historically emanating issues in the Central Business District of the town. An interesting historiographical study of Saddar Bazar in Karachi by Hira Ovais is the topic of the fifth paper included in this volume. Comprising evidences from archival and recent survey records, the paper documents the role of different communities in the making of this vital precinct of Karachi. A meticulous analysis of building evidences add value to the narrative. This volume includes a book review of the book titled Mapping Lahore by Prof. Dr. Abdul Rehman. Editorial Board Journal of Research in Architecture and Planning: Vol. 15, 2013 (Second Issue) - Architecture, Urban Design & Planning vii THINKING BEYOND ENGINES OF GROWTH: RE-CONCEPTUALIZATION URBAN PLANNING DISCOURSE IN PAKISTAN Nausheen H. Anwar* ABSTRACT Pakistan where a model of development similar to the prototypical Western global city dominates (Shatkin 2007), Ring towns, twin-cities, city regions, peri-urban, intermediate albeit with diverse applications and outcomes. An article cities and more, the vast nomenclature captures the in a leading Pakistani journal (Shakir, 2012) summarized unrelenting interest in secondary cities as engines of growth, the priorities for a modern city, underscoring its ability to capable of surmounting the challenges of urbanization in spur on the development of the hinterland through the Pakistan. This conceptually-driven article examines the workings of a modern state that conjures the global city bourgeoning interest in secondary cities and proposes alternate as a catalyst for the growth of the region as a whole. ways of thinking about such conurbations. It underscores The implicit assumption being if state functionaries transform the need to go beyond technocratic discourse and capitalist key metropolitan centers into global/world cities, then the assumptions of infinite growth and modernization as benefits of such transformation axiomatically flow across conventionally applied in regional and urban planning secondary cities and beyond, reviving and revitalizing the discourse in Pakistan. The article calls for re-orienting languishing hinterland. Such discourses also pivot on planning discourse in Pakistan to incorporate the substantive reductive explanations of Pakistani cities in general. They theme of urbanism, which is crucial for comprehending invoke the idea that the secret to resolving urban problems how citizens experience urban life across a diverse and lies in unlocking Pakistans urban economy so it can attract shifting landscape, where the city fades into the countryside, the right human talent and appropriate capital (Dawn 2012). or where urban sprawl and ribbon developments defy That such discourses materialize within the spaces of upper- categorization. middle class privilege and are aligned with neoliberal agendas is hardly questioned. Keywords: Secondary cities, Planning discourse, Urban sprawl, Globalization Whither then the secondary city? In recent discourse, for instance in the World Banks influential Urban & Local INTRODUCTION Government Strategy: Concept and Issue Note (2009) secondary cities are understood as the driving force of urban In the alpha, beta, gamma pecking order of global cities1 population growth. Notwithstanding the importance of such understood as the command and control points of the world discourse, the Banks language of scientific/economic economy and finance capital, secondary cities tend to occupy efficiency consigns cities futures to a series of tips analogous the lower rung of a Darwinian hierarchy or fall through the to financial portfolio management: a portfolio of cracks of a system of representation that has valorized cities places so as to maximize the benefits of agglomeration in terms of modernization theories of the post-WW 2 era. economies, while ensuring a smooth urban transition. Such Put differently, a citys success is measured in terms of its corporatist visions of alignments, overhauls, sector strategies participation in globality or its ability to survive in the and harnessing productivity either deliberately overlook the competition of network capitalism. The inverse or lack of critical role of political economy, colonial legacies and such participation and failure to survive necessitates political struggles, or view these issues through the narrow stagnation, impoverishment or even a pathological condition. prism of external/internal risk mitigation. Ash Amin (2004) Such ideas are pervasive in urban planning discourse in has correctly asserted that such interpretations assume * Dr. Nausheen H. Anwar, Assistant Professor of Urban Studies, Department of Social Sciences & Liberal Arts, Institute of Business Administration (IBA), Karachi and Post doctoral fellow, at Asia Research Institute, National University, Singapore. 1 I have not included in this hierarchy the megacity and its critical inter-dependence with the global city. A sophisticated account of this conceptual dynamic is provided by Roy (2011) Slumdog Cities: Rethinking Subaltern Urbanism. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, 35(2): 223-238. Journal of Research in Architecture and Planning: Vol. 15, 2013 (Second Issue) - Architecture, Urban Design & Planning 1 territories can be controlled and managed and politics can of surrounding rural areas and to control migration into be reduced to a mere case of cadre managerialism.2 larger cities or primate cities. While in Pakistan, certain