Course Description
Urbanization presents several obstacles in the overall distribution of people, resources and consumption of land. This is particularly relevant in Karachi, where, as a horizontally sprawling city, it is more challenging to handle the rapidly increasing population as well as the negative externalities associated with it. It is fundamental to critically discuss and sensitively identify effective housing strategies and solutions beneficial to Karachi’s context. This course looks at different housing schemes within Karachi and zooms into squatter settlements, slums, etc. Students look at housing projects all over the world, and explore various methods of making self-sufficient and sustainable neighborhoods, and the students get to implement their learnings by identifying a low income neighbourhood and providing a development proposal.
Centre For Transdisciplinarity, Design & Innovation
