Urban Architecture and Local Spaces in Pakistan

This book is set in Karachi, Pakistan and investigates the possibility of achieving localness through identifying urban process and their impact on built form, addressing how locals associate with the urban spaces and how they value it.

List of contents

List of figures. List of tables. Background and introduction. The complexity of western and regional design theories of place and maqamiat. Karachi, an introduction: analysing maqamiat of built form. Kharadar and Meethadar within Old Town. Kehkashan Clifton. Pakistan Employees Co-operative Housing Society (PECHS). Importance of the notion of maqamiat for Karachi. Index.

About the author

Suneela Ahmed is an architect, urbanist and an academic. She earned her PhD in 2016 from Oxford Brookes University, UK. This book is an outcome of her PhD research and interest in developing an understanding on local processes, everyday adaptations of urban spaces at the grass root level by locals of the global south. Her interest lies in documenting and analyzing the mitigation processes through the challenges of globalization, localization and informalization which gives shape to everyday spaces within an urban setting. She has written various research papers, book chapters, newspaper articles and presented in conferences around these issues/ themes/ ideas. This is her first solo authorship and a tribute to the city that has always inspired and aspired her, her hometown- the city of Karachi.

Summary

This book is set in Karachi, Pakistan and investigates the possibility of achieving localness through identifying urban process and their impact on built form, addressing how locals associate with the urban spaces and how they value it.

Product details

• Authors: Suneela Ahmed
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 27.05.2024
• EAN: 9781032159126
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3215912-6
• No. of pages: 174
• Series: Architecture and Urbanism in the Global South
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Architecture; ARCHITECTURE / Design, Drafting, Drawing & Presentation, Architectural structure & design, ARCHITECTURE / History / General, ARCHITECTURE / Urban & Land Use Planning, ARCHITECTURE / Professional Practice, City & town planning - architectural aspects, History of Architecture, Architectural structure and design, Architecture: professional practice, City and town planning: architectural aspects