Urban architecture and local spaces in Pakistan / Suneela Ahmed.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ahmed, Suneela, author.

Series:

Architecture and Urbanism in the Global South

Architecture and urbanism in the Global South

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Space (Architecture)--Pakistan--Karachi.

Space (Architecture).

Architecture and society--Pakistan--Karachi.

Architecture and society.

City planning--Pakistan--Karachi--Citizen participation.

City planning.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (187 pages)

Place of Publication:

London ; New York, New York : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, [2023]

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. Thus, the investigation, using the local terminology maqamiat, goes beyond the physicality of space and develops a framework that helps to understand the social, ethnic, economic, ecological and other the non-physical aspects of space, which are of value to the locals. The aim is to investigate the possibility of achieving localness through identifying urban design elements that can be incorporated into the process of designing new built forms that acknowledges what is valued by the locals instead of superimposing imported designs, negating the contextual realties, both physical and social. For this purpose, the book includes three case studies from Karachi. The book questions the aspiration of many cities in the South Asian context to imitate the built forms of Western cities (increasingly, Singapore and Shanghai) which are viewed as modern and represents future. The book will make a theoretical contribution to the existing literature on postcolonial urbanism and explore space from a local vantage point for understanding how to look inwards for aspiration"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Cover

Half Title

Series Page

Title Page

Copyright Page

Dedication

Table of Contents

List of figures

List of tables

1 Background and introduction

2 The complexity of western and regional design theories of place and maqamiat

3 Karachi, an introduction: analysing maqamiat of built form

4 Kharadar and Meethadar within Old Town

5 Kehkashan Clifton

6 Pakistan Employees Co-operative Housing Society (PECHS)

7 Importance of the notion of maqamiat for Karachi

Index.

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-00-324627-3

1-000-76335-8

1-003-24627-3

9781003246275

OCLC:

1344339959