Articles with tag: urban
Stripping Away Beauty
Adnan Bashir Apr 28, 2008 interacts: 8There are more houses and wider roads but lesser pastures and more stinking water drains. The weather does not seem all that pleasant and the air is ridden with smoke and smog.
Fatima Jinnah Park – Metaphor for Pakistan's Problems and their Solution
Q Isa Daudpota Sep 7, 2007 interacts: 13Capital Development Authority (CDA) has carved out a large corner (6000 sq yards) of the Fatima Jinnah Park for McDonald's at a ridiculously low rental
Adam Khor Ayash Gorillay
Syed Shah Jan 26, 2007 interacts: 8Is everyone these days tripping over themselves to conform to this stereotype of being hip?
Darakhat Bachao, Lahore Bachao
Ahmed R Alam Jun 29, 2006 interacts: 47The Citizens of Lahore are now planning a conference in which stakeholders shall be allowed to voice their concerns about the development of the city.
Urban India -- The NRI Viewpoint
Rakesh Mani Jan 3, 2006 interacts: 23Perhaps this wave of westernization and erosion of culture and values is limited to a few, a solitary blond hair follicle in a jet black mane?
Invisible Immigrations, Furtive Bleedings
Harish Nambiar Nov 13, 2005 interacts: 13Unfortunately, the ghetto is moving into the city. The city is bleeding into the ghetto...Destinies are converging constantly and very swiftly in the globalised and globalizing world.
Project Mumbai Makeover: Casualties of Development
Shivali Tukdeo Jul 11, 2005 interacts: 114Vilasrao Deshmukh, the Chief Minister of Maharashtra (India) was recently in the US, marketing and showcasing Maharashtra for possible investors.
Implications of Iraqi Instability
S F Hasnat May 31, 2005 interacts: 27In the presence of 138,000 American troops, the first seventeen days of May witnessed 21 car bombings in Baghdad, while there were a total of 25 in all of the year of 2004.
Tight-fisted Urban Development!
Abdus Samad Jul 13, 2004 interacts: 4We are looking for ways to accelerate growth so that poverty can be reduced and living standards improved. We go borrowing and begging to do this! Yet not many of us question the myriads of opportunities for investment that careless regulation stifles.
Reviving Lahore
Nadeem Haque Feb 16, 2004 interacts: 19“Have you seen any tower cranes in Lahore? You know those things that they use to build high rise buildings!” I have asked many audiences this question and always received the same answer: “NO!”
The obstacle in social mobility in Pakistan
Faiza Hussain Oct 24, 2003 interacts: 174Implement true Land Reforms in Pakistan, no more the facade of democracy.
In Search of Greener Pastures
Faiza Hussain Oct 8, 2003 interacts: 17It is time we drop the rhetoric and bring an end to Pakistan’s feudalism
