Urban Mobility For All

The aim is to develop a comprehensive strategic roadmap, to be followed by actions on ground, on how we can move towards having ‘accessible’ streets and public spaces in Karachi where our streets/sidewalks, public spaces can be designed to make them accessible and walkable for pedestrians and people with special needs...

A Strategic Framework

Karachi is faced with numerous challenges of sustainable urban growth. Urban transportation is one of them. We do not have a viable public mass transit system, number of private vehicles keep increasing in the city and there is no effective regulation of the road worthiness of vehicles....

Karachi's Industrial Estates

Karachi is faced with a number of development challenges. The city is expanding both vertically and horizontally without any viable planning framework or regulatory mechanisms channeling its growth. Land use is being violated, civic services are crumbling and the many responsible institutions for local and urban governance are facing institutional bankruptcy and failing to deliver on their mandates....

Energy Efficient and Climate Protective Growth Strategy in Pakistan

Given the scale and scope of the environmental, economic and social development sectors being covered in the SDGs framework, it has become quite clear that the global development agenda for the world for the coming years is going to be determined by the SDGs....

Transit Oriented Development And Sustainable Urban Planning

When we talk about Urban Mobility the context it provides blends a particular form of public transport - be it Light Rail Transit (LRT), Bus Rapid Transit (BRT), Subways, Metros or Non- motorized Transport (NMT) like walking and bicycling - into a larger understanding of urban mobility defined by parameters such as accessibility, affordability, reliability and associated environmental controls.....

Integrating Land Use And Mobility Planning For Improved Liveability

We are in the age of smart and sustainable cities, of resilient and inclusive cities. The way cities are being conceptualized, planned, designed, retrofitted and managed is in many ways diametrically different from how urban planning was approached even a decade or two ago. Focus is now on micro rather than macro level planning and planning is strategic rather than based on master planning....