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Urban Development on the Dying Ravi?

By Hala Bashir Malik
Oct 2014
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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Calvino’s Tales And The City | Invisible Cities

By Fizzah Sajjad & Hala Bashir Malik
Jul 2014

"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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