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Rida
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Mar 26, 2021 • 13 tweets • 6 min read
What's going on at #CliftonBeach and why you should care as a Pakistani- a thread on inaccessibility at the seafront commons using diagrams/gifs:

#EnvisioningCliftonBeach #KarachiPublic Access means to benefit. The beach, the water, everyone is entitled access to it by law.

The sea and the urban edge are shown with four main nodes as gateways serving ~20,000,000 citizens and tourists. Today, the stretch of the beach is marked by elements of inaccessibility.
Feb 1, 2021 • 10 tweets • 3 min read
A game on water features in Karachi.
Guess this one!

1/9 Image It is Lake Neglect-e-Karachi, an unapologetic sewage outfall on the city's most accessible public beach- "ghareebon ka sahil"- situated a short 10-minutes walk from Bilawal House. A casual fact.

Don't go here to access nature at the sea, it is hazardous.

2/9 Image
Jan 18, 2021 • 10 tweets • 5 min read
As requested, DHA City scale comparison with urban Karachi. It spans the length of North Nazimabad to Shahra-e-Faisal, Nazimabad to Askari IV.

Its been marketed as the first sustainable city of Pakistan, "self-dependent for water and electricity". Great. Some thoughts... The Master Plan is dominated by the same old luxurious single-family lot size at a time the world over is moving towards densified developments, mindful of resource scarcity accelerated by climate change.
Jan 17, 2021 • 8 tweets • 4 min read
Pakistan's largest mosque is being built in Bahria Town Karachi.

The satellite image is a keymap. Everything in colour is in the viewpoint of the photo. Let's harmlessly explore what they want us to see: 1. A goth choked between the boundary. A lucky one because the bar is low.
Jan 2, 2021 • 14 tweets • 4 min read
In this thread I compare Bahria Town (Karachi) to other cities, local and international, to relay the spatial scale of 'legalized' fraud involved. Try to also grasp that all of the areas in these cities fall under one developer. Image: Bahria Town Karachi overlay on Lahore
Dec 31, 2020 • 7 tweets • 3 min read
Goths (villages) and farms existed where Bahria Town encroached; ones that survived visible at the boundaries. This area is located within the Malir River watershed and hosts seasonal streams. See waterbeds and how farmland developed along them in these satellite images. ImageImageImageImage Linked to maps of encroachment by Bahria Town here: