Karachi: The Land Issue - Rilegato

Hasan, Arif; Ahmed, Noman; Raza, Mansoor; Uddin Ahmed, Saeed; Sarwar, Moizza B.; Sadiq-Polack, Asiya

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ISBN 10: 0199402086 ISBN 13: 9780199402083

Casa editrice: OUP Pakistan, 2015

Riassunto

Karachi is one of the fastest growing cities in the world. It is Pakistan's only port and the major contributor to the country's economy. In addition, it is also a diverse city, with its population politically divided along ethnic lines. These three factors make urban land and that on the city fringe, a highly contested commodity around which federal, provincial, and local landowning agencies; corporate sector interests; formal and informal developers; international capital and military cantonments, compete for control and for extracting maximum value from it. The victims of this battle for turf and profits are the city's social and physical environment and its low and lower middle-income groups.

This book deals with the history, evolution, and present day realities around who owns land; its legal and illegal acquisition, land-use conversions and development; the actors involved and their relationship with each other and with the public at large; the often violent conflicts that take place in this process and the measures that can be taken to regulate the land market for the creation of a better urban environment and for providing homes to its less privileged.

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L'autore:

Arif Hasan is an architect/planner dealing with urban planning and development issues, particularly those concerning Asia and Pakistan. Noman Ahmed has a PhD in Civil and Building Engineering from Loughborough University and is Professor and Chairman, Department of Architecture and Planning at the NED University of Engineering and Technology, Karachi. Mansoor Raza is a freelance researcher with various action researches to his credit. Asiya Sadiq-Polack is Associate Professor at the Department of Architecture and Planning at the NED University of Engineering and Technology, Karachi. Moizza B. Sarwar is a DPhil student at the Department of Social Policy, Sommerville College, Oxford. Her current research builds on her Masters work on informal settlements in Cape Town, South Africa and Karachi, Pakistan.

Contenuti:

• List of Maps
• Introduction
• 1. Karachi: The Context
• 2. Land
• Issues in Control and Ownership
• Conclusions
• 3. Review of the Laws, Statutes, and Regulations relating to Land Management in Karachi
• The Importance of Land
• Disposal of Urban Land
• Cantonment Laws
• Railway Laws
• Laws on Katchi Abadis
• The Societies Act
• Laws on Land Revenue
• Laws on Land Acquisition
• Building Control and Town Planning Regulations
• Environmental Laws
• Building control Laws
• Conclusions regarding Laws and Regulations
• Review of Land and Urban Master Plans
• Conclusions regarding Land and Urban Master Plans
• Views of the Provincial Government and the CDGK on the Karachi Strategic Development Plan-2020
• The views of the Provincial Government Views of an Official in the City District Government Karachi (CDGK)
• Views of an Official from the Sindh Katchi Abadi Authority (SKAA)
• Conclusions
• 4. Credit for Purchase of Land and Housing
• A Review of Housing Finance
• Conclusions
• 5. Actors and Factors in Land Related Conflicts: Findings from Secondary Sources
• Introduction
• Data Gathered from Visual Media on Land in Karachi
• Observations on Feature Films about Land Issues
• Data on Land in Karachi from Five Case Studies
• Land Conversion along Karachi's Coastline
• Synopsis of Data on Land in Karachi from the
• Print Media
• Conclusions
• 6. Actors and Factors in Land Related Conflicts: Findings from Primary Sources
• Introduction
• What the Interviews Tell Us
• The Emergence and Role of a Builder's Mafia in Karachi
• Land in the Informal Domain-the Nexus of Builders, Politicians, and Developers
• House prices and Market Mechanisms in Settlements
• Public views on Housing
• Conclusions
• 7. Support to Poor Communities; Resident's Views on Affordability and Location Issues
• NGO and CBO Support to Poor Communities
• Main focus of NGO work
• Accessing Credit through NGOs
• NGOs and Housing
• NGOs and Legal Aid for the Poor
• Conclusion
• Issues Associated with Affordability and Location
• Household size
• Quality of Housing
• Employment Status
• Legal Status
• Issues associated with Relocation
• Informal Businesses and their Locations
• Conclusions
• 8. Towards a More Equitable Land Policy
• Appendices
• Glossary
• References
• Index

Su questa edizione

• Editore: OUP Pakistan
• Data di pubblicazione: 2015
• ISBN 10: 0199402086
• ISBN 13: 9780199402083
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 380