Living and Planning on the Edge: Unravelling Conflict and Claim-Making in Peri-Urban Lahore, Pakistan

Abstract: In Lahore, Pakistan's second largest city, high population growth rates, decades of rural-urban migration, and rampant land and real-estate speculation have contributed to the rapid urbanization of peri-urban land and the engulfing of pre-existing rural settlements. Lahore’s spatial transformation goes hand in hand with an increasingly complex urban governance framework. Historically shaped by colonial planning institutions and decades of political instability as power alternated between military and civilian regimes, Pakistan's governance practices have contributed to increasing levels of urban segregation and inequality. This raises questions around the in- and exclusionary role of planning in fostering or constraining residents' access to housing and services. Comparing three vignettes and drawing upon insights gained from extensive fieldwork, this article employs the concept of 'access-assemblages' to analyze how access to urban resources - i.e., land, housing, and services - i

Object Details

• Location: Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
• Extent: Online-Ressource
• Language: Englisch
• Notes: Veröffentlichungsversion ; begutachtet (peer reviewed) ; In: Urban Planning ; 6 (2021) 2 ; 189-201

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (where): Mannheim
• (who): SSOAR, GESIS – Leibniz-Institut für Sozialwissenschaften e.V.
• (when): 2021
• Creator: Cermeño, Helena

Further information

• DOI: 10.17645/up.v6i2.3858
• URN: urn:nbn:de:101:1-2022090115150228736741
• Rights: Open Access; Der Zugriff auf das Objekt ist unbeschränkt möglich.
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