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Urban Development on the Dying Ravi?

Rather than attempting to contain the river within a confined hard channel, those ‘developing’ the riverfront should pursue solutions that allow for the river to breathe as a river does every year. Seasonal agricultural patterns, for example, can be incorporated together with constructed wetlands in a soft landscape design to accommodate for the rise and ebb of the river flow.

Invisible Cities | Blog | Over the past two years, the Punjab government has picked up plans to develop the Ravi Riverfront as a mega project and has hired international consultants to prepare feasibility and detailed plans for the aforementioned project. This photo essay is being published with the intention...
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Azadi, Ayyan and Simulation | karachikhatmal’s blog

Sep 2014
Azadi, Ayyan and Simulation | karachikhatmal’s blog

karachikhatmal | Blog | Ayaan Ali meets the Matrix meets Khan and Qadri.
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Temporal Vulnerabilities, Shifting Landscapes

Sep 2014

Invisible Cities | Blog | This blog post is not so much about landscape infrastructure, as it is about the exchange that occurs between it and the human dweller.
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…of broken lives and an endless wait

Sep 2014

Justice Project | Blog | The repatriation of 10 Pakistanis from Bagram this year comes as a promising development.
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برابر کا میچ | سلو کا بلاگ

فون کی گھنٹی بجی تو میں سعد عثمان کا نام دیکھ کر چونک گیا۔ ابھی کوئی ہفتہ بھر پہلے اس سے سالوں بعد ملاقات ہوئی تھی۔ اسے ایسا کیا کام آن  پڑا  میں نے بٹن دبانے سے پہلے سوچا۔ ٍارے بھائی کیسے ہیں آپ؟ ملتے ہی نہیں آپ تو بڑے آدمی ہو گئے۔ انٹیلیکچوئل...
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Calvino’s Tales And The City | Invisible Cities

"To seek and learn to recognize who and what, in the midst of the inferno, are not inferno, and then make them endure, give them space."
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“Slut Shaming” Saeed Ajmal | karachikhatmal’s blog

Jul 2014

If we view cricket through the lens of gender politics, batsmen are men and bowlers are women.
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