Dr. Saeed CV 2024

CURRICULUM VITAE
Saeed Ud Din Ahmed

Dept.of Architecture and Planning. E: architectsaeed@yahoo.com, saeed.ned@neduet.edu.pk
NED University of Engineering T: +92 (0)21 9921 3058
and Technology. T: +92 (0)333 3067107
Molana Deen Mohammed Wafai Rd. W: www.neduet.edu.pk
Pakistan Chowk, 74200
Karachi, Pakistan.
CURRENT EMPLOYMENT: Associate Professor (NED University, Karachi-Pakistan)

EDUCATION: Ph.D. City and Regional Planning, Cardiff University, UK
NATIONALITY: Pakistan
LANGUAGES: English, Urdu
THEMATIC EXPERTISE: Urban Planning and Development, Urban governance and Management, Urban
Informality, Urban Design and Architecture
GEOGRAPHICAL EXPERTISE: Pakistan (Karachi)
OVERVIEW
Dr. Saeed Ud Din Ahmed is a practicing Architect and an Urban Planner, working as an academic at the Department of
Architecture and Planning NED University in the capacity of Associate Professor. Dr. Ahmed worked as an Architect for various
consultancies from 2005 till 2009 and upon completion of Masters degree in Urban and Regional Planning, he joined
academia. He completed his PhD research at the Cardiff University UK, between 2012-2016; in which he explored informal
land controls in the context of Karachi. He has been involved in different research assignments in individual capacity and as
a member of Urban Research and Design Cell (URDC) DAP-NEDUET.
Saeed has been involved in local and international research projects around informal economy, environmental
sustainability, urban services such as waste management, land supply-management and housing, urban design and
environmental uplift projects, also city’s profiling and master planning proposals are also part of his experience.
Saeed teaches Housing, Urban Development and Comprehensive Environmental Design Studios. Currently, he is Higher
Education Commission’s approved PhD supervisor, while at the university level, he is the co-chairmen of the department
along with coordinator of post-graduate and the BS Development Studies Programmes.
Dr. Saeed has supervised more than hundred undergraduate final year projects, Six post-graduate research thesis, and is
currently supervising two PhD scholars.
EDUCATION AND QUALIFICATIONS
2016 PhD, Cardiff University, Uk
2009 Masters in Urban and Regional Planning, NED University, Pakistan
2005 B. Architecture and Planning, NED University, Pakistan
ACADEMIA
2022- till date Associate Professor, and co-chairmen Dept. of Architecture and Planning, NED University, Pakistan
2012-2022 Assistant Professor, Dept. of Architecture and Planning, NED University, Pakistan
2010-2012 Lecturer, Dept. of Architecture and Planning, NED University, Pakistan
RECORD OF EMPLOYMENT
2010-date Lecturer, Assistant Prof. & Associate Prof., Department of Architecture and Planning, NED University, Karachi.
2007-2010 Project Architect, NESPAK, National Engineering Pakistan Ltd, Karachi.
2006-07 Project Architect, Surround, Architecture and Interior design practice, Karachi.
2005-06 Project Architect, ICON Architecture, Interior Design and Planning practice, Karachi.
MASTER PLANNING EXCERCISES

Following Master Planning studies and exercises of various districts of Pakistan while working at NED University;
1- Quetta City Master Plan, 2023.
2- Study of Muzaffarabad and Landikotal and planning and urban design proposal for the UN-Habitat in 2012.
3- Master Planning proposal for the Lasbela district for Balochistan Government in 2016.
4- PC-II for Master Planning proposal of Awaraan district for the Balochistan Government in 2017.
RESEARCH PROJECTS
1- 2023 – ongoing Advising Urban Unit Punjab in the development of Karachi Climate Action Plan, for the Karachi
Local government, funded by UNDP.
2- 2023 – ongoing Assisting Urban Unit Punjab in the preparation of Quetta City Master Plan for Baluchistan Govt.
3- 2023 SDG Compliant Master Planning of Cities of Sindh-Pakistan.

4- 2023 Socio-economic profiling of education city for inclusive future master planning.
5- 2022 – ongoing Women, workability and mobility. Exploring the public transport in the city of Karachi, and how it
impact the choices of women living in the peripheral areas of Karachi. Funded by the British Asian Trust, UK.
6- 2022 – 2023 Assisting the Government to align master plans of the major district headquarter of Province of
Sindh according to the SDG 11. UNDP funded project.
7- 2022 SPRET – Sustainable Pathways for Renewable Energy Transitions. A project funded by the Royal
Academy of Engineering, Frontiers Challenge. Collaboration with Cardiff University UK to explore various
technological and social innovative systems for the sustainable transitions. https://suspret.org/
8- 2021 – ongoing Understanding Water Supply System in Karachi and Related Issues. A collaboration with Dr.
Nazia Hussain, Assistant Professor Tokyo University.
9- 2020-2022 Rubbish, Resource and Residues: Waste and Wellbeing in Ethiopia and Pakistan. British
Academy funded project, focused on the waste management practices. In collaboration with LSE team led by Prof.
Jo Beal. https://www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/projects/urban-well-being-rubbish-resources-residues-waste-ethiopia-
pakistan/.
10- 2018-21 Quantifying cities for sustainable development. An ESRC funded project, exploring alternative precise
methods for population count, led by Prof. Sean Fox, Bristol University. https://research-
information.bris.ac.uk/en/projects/quantifying-cities-for-sustainable-development
11- 2019-2022 Rural growth Centers. Pilot project, funded by EU and the Government of Sindh.
https://pnd.sindh.gov.pk/storage/resourcePage/OBUd19R7l0vYvmDujn6pnoBpwYk6GSJOn6fr31fO.pdf
12- 2017 – 2021 Merewether Tower Precinct Project. Documentation, analysis and urban development proposals
for sustainable development in the old city area of Karachi. Silk Bank funded project.
13- 2016-17 NED Precinct Project. An environmental upliftment strategy involving organic waste recycling possibilities
involving NED University city campus and the famous food street of Karachi, Burnes Road. Higher Education
Commission of Pakistan funded project.
14- 2016-2018 Role of informal in economic recovery of post conflict cities. An ESRC and DFID funded project,
led by Prof. Alison Brown, Cardiff University. https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=ES%2FM008789%2F1
15- 2010-2012 Karachi, Land Issue. A research focussed on the land supply and housing issues in the city of
Karachi and especially involving poor. IIED Funded Project.
PUBLICATIONS
2023 Ahmed, S. Ahmed, A. Ahmed, S. (2023). Role of charisma in creating social networks leading to
development: Case of an informal neighborhood in Karachi. Journal of Xi’an Shiyou University,
Natural Science Edition. 09(05), pp. 1507-1514. <Available at:
https://www.xisdxjxsu.asia/V19I05-126.pdf>
2023 Ahmed, S., Shakir, M.M., Ahmed, N. and Ahmed, S. (2023). Conflicting Binaries and Urban Spaces:
the Case of Merewether Tower Precinct in Karachi (Pakistan).Journal of Architecture and Planning ,
35(2) , pp. 269-283. <Available at: doi:10.33948/JAP-KSU-35-2-5>
2022 Ahmed, N., Ahmed, S. and Ahmed, S. (2022). Predicaments and Possibilities Experienced by
Homeless in Karachi. Journal of Asian and African Studies, p.00219096221113581. <Available at:
https://doi.org/10.1177/00219096221113581>
2021 Brown, A. Mackie, P. Mehmood, A. Ahmed, S.U. (2021). Multi-dimensional conflict and the resilient
urban informal economy in Karachi, Pakistan. IDPR International Development Planning Review.
<Available at: doi.org/10.3828/idpr.2021.13>
2021 Ahmed, N., Ahmed, S. and Ahmed, S.U., (2021). Impacts of judicial verdicts on land acquisition
practices for real estate: cases from Pakistan. ICONARP International Journal of Architecture and
Planning. <Available at: https://doi.org/10.15320/ICONARP.2021.176>
2021 Ahmed, N., Ahmed, S. and Ahmed, S.U., (2021). Examining challenges experienced by street
vendors in the global south: case of district south in Karachi. Proceedings of the Institution of Civil
Engineers-Urban Design and Planning, pp.1-24. <Available at:
https://doi.org/10.1680/jurdp.20.00024>
2020 Ahmed, S.U.D., Mehmood, A. and Brown, A.M., (2020). Informal power structures: towards provision
of services and security of tenure. In Communities, Land and Social Innovation. Edward Elgar
Publishing.
2017 Brown, A & Ahmed, S. (2017). Local government dissolution in Karachi: Chasm or catalyst? Third World
Thematic: A TWQ Journal. 01(06): 879-897. <Available online at: 10.1080/23802014.2016.1315318>
2016 Ahmed, S. (2016). Informal Land Controls: A Case of Karachi-Pakistan. Ph.D Thesis, Cardiff University.
Un-published. <Available at: https://orca.cf.ac.uk/92021/1/Final%20thesis.pdf>
2015 Hasan, A. Ahmed, N. Sadiq, A. Raza, M. Ahmed, S. Sarwar, M. B. (2015). Karachi: The Land Issue.
Karachi: Oxford University Press.
2014 Ahmed, S. (2014) Dominance of Private Sector in Housing; Rise of Informality and Right to the City: Journal
of research in Architecture and Planning, 16(01): 18-32.
2013 Hasan, A. Ahmed, N. Sadiq, A. Raza, M. Ahmed, S. Sarwar, M. B. (2013). Land ownership, control and
contestation in Karachi and implications for low-income housing. International Institute for Environment and
Development (IIED).
2013 Ahmed, S. (2013) Multiplicity of Land Owning Agencies and its Role in the Development of Informal
Settlements in Karachi: proceedings of the 8th Seminar on Urban and Regional Planning: Dynamics of
Land in Planning, Karachi, 30th March 2013.
2010 Sadiq, A., Shakir, M., Ahmed, S.(2010), Gated Living in the Context of Karachi, Journal of research in
Architecture and Planning, 09(01): 50-64. <Available at: https://jrap.neduet.edu.pk/arch-
journal/JRAP_2010/5-Asiya-Masooma-Saeed.pdf>

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CURRICULUM VITAE

Saeed Ud Din Ahmed

CURRENT EMPLOYMENT: Associate Professor (NED University, Karachi-Pakistan)

MASTER PLANNING EXCERCISES

3- 2023 SDG Compliant Master Planning of Cities of Sindh-Pakistan.

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