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    Urban Planning For Pakistan

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    Pakistani urban planners have failed to create safe, livable cities and plan for issues like population growth, climate change impacts, and inadequate infrastructure. While cities attract many migrants, city administrations struggle to provide basic services. Master plans are needed that address water security, protection of urban water bodies, low-emissions public transportation, equitable access to services, and governance structures to manage growth and climate risks. Current plans for major cities like Karachi and Lahore have not been implemented or have faced jurisdictional issues.

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    Pakistani urban planners have failed to create safe, livable cities and plan for issues like population growth, climate change impacts, and inadequate infrastructure. While cities attract many migrants, city administrations struggle to provide basic services. Master plans are needed that address water security, protection of urban water bodies, low-emissions public transportation, equitable access to services, and governance structures to manage growth and climate risks. Current plans for major cities like Karachi and Lahore have not been implemented or have faced jurisdictional issues.

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    Pakistani urban planners have failed to create safe, livable cities and plan for issues like population growth, climate change impacts, and inadequate infrastructure. While cities attract many migrants, city administrations struggle to provide basic services. Master plans are needed that address water security, protection of urban water bodies, low-emissions public transportation, equitable access to services, and governance structures to manage growth and climate risks. Current plans for major cities like Karachi and Lahore have not been implemented or have faced jurisdictional issues.

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    Pakistani urban planners have failed to create safe, livable cities and plan for issues like population growth, climate change impacts, and inadequate infrastructure. While cities attract many migrants, city administrations struggle to provide basic services. Master plans are needed that address water security, protection of urban water bodies, low-emissions public transportation, equitable access to services, and governance structures to manage growth and climate risks. Current plans for major cities like Karachi and Lahore have not been implemented or have faced jurisdictional issues.

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    Urban planning for Pakistan

    PAKISTANI urban planners have failed miserably to plan safe and livable cities for us. Instead of serving
    as engines of growth, our cities are holding us back from economic development. They are fast
    becoming Pakistan’s climate hotspots, unprepared for urban flooding and heatwaves and other climate-
    induced disasters with poor urban infrastructure and rarely enforced building codes. Yet, cities have the
    gravitational force to attract the poor from rural areas, making Pakistan the most urbanised country in
    the region with an unmanageably high population growth rate. The quality of life of the 75 million
    urban residents is snowballing towards free fall.

    While most cities’ administrations lag behind in providing municipal or environmental services to their
    existing populations, waves of new migrants flock to the cities seeking social and economic
    opportunities. Cities have become the epicentres of polluted air and water, with disappearing footpaths,
    parks, graveyards and open public spaces.

    None of Pakistan’s provincial capitals has a master plan to guide its development. Karachi’s several
    master plans since 1951 have remained unimplemented drafts. Lahore’s master plan, ambitiously
    named Vision 2050, has been wrought with jurisdictional fights for decades without seeing the light of
    day. Peshawar and Quetta, despite a push from successive governments have also failed to develop
    their city’s visions.

    City master plans must include five components to bring sanity to the real estate gold rush.
    First, cities should be water secure. Since cities do not have the right to water from the Indus and can
    get water only from their provincial share, it is critical for cities to identify and protect their catchment
    areas, inject rainwater to recharge their aquifers and use rooftops, parks, playgrounds and greenbelts to
    serve this purpose. Absorbing every drop is critical to developing sponge cities.

    Second, cities should steadily reclaim and protect urban water bodies to curtail urban flooding by
    negotiating their banks as public parks and urban forests. Water bodies are critical to blunt the spikes in
    temperature during heatwaves, that are projected to increase in severity and frequency.

    Third, cities should plan for low or near zero emissions by promoting public transportation and
    technological transformations to reduce commuting. Covid-19 has transformed the future of work,
    commerce, education and shopping. As entrepreneurs are finding innovative ways for livelihoods, city
    planners need to help overcome the digital and technological divide. Master plans can envision
    renewable energy-based transportation systems and promote infrastructure for electric vehicles.

    Fourth, plan for equity and inclusion by provisioning seven essential functions for residents within 15-20
    minutes: living, working, commerce, healthcare, education, entertainment, and access to public
    transportation. This can serve as the backbone of the urban economy. The notion of the 15-minute city
    is gaining traction in political and planning circles because it deals with the neglected scale of planning
    that is localised to the neighbourhood level. This return to local ways of life through walkable
    neighborhoods is particularly suitable for Pakistan where the emphasis on walkability and accessibility is
    essential for women, children and the elderly who have historically been left out of urban planning.
    Finally, how cities will be governed, managed and resourced should be clearly articulated in over 200
    urban master plans that are presently being developed. We must know what will be the accountability
    mechanisms and what climate change-specific considerations will be addressed in the master plans.

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