Pakistan's Galloping Urbanization
A full-day conference on Pakistan's rapidly growing cities, and what can be done to address this irreversible phenomenon.
Overview
The luncheon keynote address will be webcast live at 1:30 pm.聽
Pakistan鈥檚 future will largely be written in its cities. Today about a third of Pakistan鈥檚 population is urban-based, but that figure is expected to increase to nearly 50 percent within a dozen years. Recent data shows that Karachi鈥檚 population grew by 80 percent between 2000 and 2010鈥攖he largest such increase of any city in the world. Pakistan鈥檚 accelerating urbanization presents huge challenges but simultaneously offers the country a way out of its present multiple dilemmas.
The goal of this conference is to generate new ideas and methods鈥攖hose that go beyond calls for more public funding鈥攆or dealing with a phenomenon that is already well in place and is not going to be halted.
RSVPs are required, .
Speakers
Murtaza Haider
Nadeem Ul Haque
Nadeem Hussain
Ahsan Iqbal
Sania Nishtar
Mohammad Qadeer
Aun Rahman
Tasneem Siddiqui
Hosted By
Indo-Pacific Program
The Indo-Pacific Program promotes policy debate and intellectual discussions on US interests in the Asia-Pacific as well as political, economic, security, and social issues relating to the world鈥檚 most populous and economically dynamic region.聽 Read more
Urban Sustainability Laboratory
Since 1991, the Urban Sustainability Laboratory has advanced solutions to urban challenges鈥攕uch as poverty, exclusion, insecurity, and environmental degradation鈥攂y promoting evidence-based research to support sustainable, equitable and peaceful cities. Read more
Environmental Change and Security Program
The Environmental Change and Security Program (ECSP) explores the connections between environmental change, health, and population dynamics and their links to conflict, human insecurity, and foreign policy. Read more
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