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Karachi Management of Urban Change
APPLICATION
Management of urban change Population
growth,industry, housing,services,quality of life
and inequalities which arise in a city in the
developing world
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Land Use in Karachi
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How many people in Karachi ?
1833 Small fishing village
14000 Size of Bathgate !!!
1941 Industrial development
436000 Size of Edinburgh
1951 In-migration from India
1290000
1991 ( Afghanistan civil war )
8.5 million Scotland 5million
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How do katchi abadis grow ?
Older Katchi Abadis -Lyari 600000

• Migrants from countryside

• Getting more densely packed

• No planning at all

• Filling up empty spaces

• Building on roof

• Services are acquired

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How do katchi abadis grow ?
Illegal subdivisions

• Dallal acquires land

• Sub lets to slum dwellers

• Arranges water supplies

• Protects residents from eviction

• Once big enough it is safe

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How do katchi abadis grow ?
Organised Invasions

• Poorer people cant pay rent

• Pick out a site

• Occupy it in the evening

• Build houses on it at night

• Try to prevent demolition

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What are the houses like ?
Very temporary Made of reeds And wooden poles
Temporary More wood
Prolonged Concrete bricks
Semi permanent Plastered walls
Permanent Can add extra storey
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Inequalities ?
Architect designed
Car owners
Water 2 hrs per day
Water use 10 For 0.5 population
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Solutions Success or Failure ?
IRP Improvement and Regularisation Programme
Survey of all unauthorised katchi abadis to see
if they could be improved.
Secure land tenure
Improvement of public utilities
Development of a financial plan
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Solutions Success or Failure ?
OPD Open Plot Development
Residents build own houses
Public utilities
Community facilities
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Solutions Success or Failure ?
UWD Utility Wall Development
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Solutions Success
ORANGI Katchi Abadi
In NW Karachi home of 1,000,000 shanty
dwellers Diseases like typhoid,
malaria,diarrhoea,dysentery scabies Many live 5
to a room 20 of babies dont reach their first
birthday Karachi Development Corporation
cannot organise services..... no taxes paid by
many residents 1500 people died in riots in
1995-96
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Solutions Success
ORANGI PILOT PROJECT
In 1980 the OPP began, to try to develop and
improve basic services, particularly sanitation.
The residents are managing, financing, operating
and maintaining an underground sewerage system.
Installation of septic tanks between each
toilet and the underground sewage pipes
Residents have collected over 1.2 million
Literacy rates up from 35 to 70
Infant mortality fallen from 130 per 1000 to 37
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Karachi Skyline
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Street in Karachi
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Laundry
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Brickworks
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Bowser water lorry
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Water queue
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Garbage dump
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Katchi abadi housing
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Defence housing
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Mobile home ?
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Use of water
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Middle Class house
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Middle Class house with garden