CBEC Forum: 'Karachi – A Profile of Urban Inequity and Social Injustice' with Dr. Farhan Anwar on Saturday, October 21, 2023, 3.30 pm (PKT)
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CBEC Forum (Hybrid)
Karachi – A Profile of Urban Inequity and Social Injustice
Farhan Anwar
Saturday, October 21, 2023
3:30 pm to 5:00 pm PKT
Urban theorist and activist, Jane Jacobs, once famously said "Cities have the capability of providing something for everybody, only because and only when they are created by everybody." Karachi, sadly, is not a city “created by everybody,” where the state has failed to structure and implement a viable social and political contract with citizens. Public policy has served limited interest groups at the cost of the increasingly marginalized majority. When the limited interests of those in positions of power define actions on the ground, urban spaces end up being commoditized. Financial dividends, not social benefits, determine the use of land and resources. Karachi reflects these realities with its growing profile of urban inequity defining the contours of urban growth.
In our upcoming CBEC Forum with Urban Planner and Academic, Farhan Anwar will highlight the critical cause and implications of this social injustice and share some thoughts on a way out of the crisis. He is the Assistant Professor of Practice at the Social Development & Policy Program at the School of Arts, Humanities & Social Sciences, Habib University, Karachi. Anwar is also the founder and CEO of Urban Collaborative, a private consultancy aimed at promoting narratives and practices of sustainable urban design in Pakistan. He has provided consultancy to several organizations including World Bank, Asian Development Bank, Japanese International Corporation Agency, World Conservation Union, and WWF Pakistan.
This Forum will be held in person at CBEC-SIUT. Those who are unable to attend on-site can participate via Zoom. Click this link [https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZYtf-2vqjMvGNQsIJdU_gxUDb6sRwjtay6L] to register for the Zoom invite.
This session will also be live-streamed on our Facebook page.
Regards,
Aamir Jafarey
Professor
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