KUL is a collaborative experiment in critical urban thinking. It is housed in the School of Economics & Social Sciences @ibakarachi. Founder @nha3383
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1/3 In light of recent heatwaves in South Asia & devastating impacts, it is pertinent to reexamine how we understand heat as a phenomenon & approaches to manage it. As part of @GCRF funded collaborative project @thermalcultures this Scoping Study look at Karachi’s heat space 👇
Karachi Urban Lab retweeted
It was very moving to hear their stories and the work that is being done to highlight their issues thanks to @KarachiUrbanLab
Thanks to @KarachiUrbanLab at @ibakhiofficial for their invite to speak at the launch of their film and report on the human cost of #CPEC early harvest project, the ML-1 with Sheffield University. Hint, it’s not a “game changer” for everyone!
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#ML1 track needs an upgrade Karachi to Lahore. 15,000 people will need to give up their homes in 3 cities. British law we still use calls them squatters. #BuildBabyBuild
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Karachi Urban Lab retweeted
Read full story by @UrbanPlannerNED 👇
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The catch: there's no credible resettlement plan for the thousands of families living along the corridor. @KarachiUrbanLab modeled two clearance scenarios — 40ft and 25ft on either side of the track. The smaller one displaces at least 2,400 people; the larger one, over 15,000.
Karachi Urban Lab retweeted
Jacobabad hit a heat index of 51°C this June. Researchers from @KarachiUrbanLab spent time in its informal settlements and surrounding villages. And what they found isn't just about temperature.
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The stories emerging from #Jacobabad are not simply stories about #climatechange. They'r stories about inequality, infrastructure & political neglect.
@KarachiUrbanLab team wrote this piece during field work in Jacobabad, published in @prismdawndotcom
dawn.com/news/2009970/51-deg… – at Manchester, England
What happens when taps run dry?
In his latest article, @UrbanPlannerNED, Acting Director @KarachiUrbanLab examines the growing water crisis, its impacts on urban communities, and the urgent need for sustainable and equitable water governance.
Read more:
thenews.pk/tns/detail/142162… – at Manchester, England
We at the Karachi Urban Lab invite you to attend the masterclass: Lyari Kaur Kinaray: Forgotten Ecologies in a Changed Climate on 22nd June, 2026 at 3pm.
This masterclass journeys the transformation of Lyari River, with Dr. Noman Ahmed, Ramzan Baloch and Faheem Shad share stories of the river from 1960s to the present day relationship of the youth wtih this river body.
Upcoming #USFSeminarSeriesAwards Event
These series of Masterclasses are a part of the USF Project: Ordinary Ecologies of Repair. Karachi Urban Lab will be hosting a masterclass very soon, but this Friday, we learn from the Hyderabad Team. Please Register for the event and join.
"Marammat: Youth Holding the City Together" is the opening masterclass from Hyderabad. " This seminar series funded by the #USF, wants to make visible ordinary ecologies of repair across five South Asian cities: Hyderabad, Delhi, Dhaka, Chennai and Karachi.
📅 Friday, 5 June 2026 🕓 4 pm Delhi | 3:30 pm Karachi | 4:30 pm Dhaka 🔗 Register here: zurl.co/M52vu 👉 Learn more about the project: zurl.co/IDpS5
Seminar on #ExtremeHeat and #UrbanResilience led by KUL director @UrbanPlannerNED - bringing together practitioners, researchers, and humanitarian leaders to reflect on the growing climate risks facing our cities.
@ibakhiofficial
@sess_iba #Karachi #IndoorTemperatures #heatwave – at Copenhagen Beach, MI
We marched today at Frere Hall on the 21st December 2025 for #ClimateMarchKarachi. Climate change is not distant or abstract — it is lived daily through heat, floods, rising seas, food loss, and displacement in cities like Karachi.
@UrbanPlannerNED @nha3383 #HeatCrisis #floods – at Karachi, Pakistan
We support the #KarachiClimateMarch2025 — because climate crisis in Karachi is not abstract. It is lived daily through heat, water scarcity, displacement, and deepening urban inequality. Climate justice must centre the city’s most vulnerable.
@nha3383
@UrbanPlannerNED – at Sindh, Pakistan
Happening Now
we are unpacking human costs often overshadowed in mega-infrastructure projects ML-1(Mainline-1) CPEC project reflects familiar patterns of uncertainty & displacement seen across Pakistan
@InvisibleMapper @urbaninstitute @nha3383 @UrbanPlannerNED
Community members, activists & researchers are invited to join, as we unpack human costs often overshadowed in mega-infrastructure projects ML-1(Mainline-1) CPEC project reflects familiar patterns of uncertainty & displacement seen across Pakistan
@InvisibleMapper @urbaninstitute
Karachi Urban Lab retweeted
An immense pleasure to have co-authored this piece with my former
IBA student @Etha0296 On mobility infrastructures and female domestic workers in Karachi, #Pakistan
#PakistanDialogues In this piece, authors @nha3383 ( @ibakarachi) and Eisha Shakeel (@KarachiUrbanLab) investigate how the design and provision of mobility infrastructure affect female domestic workers in public spaces, particularly at Bus Stops.
Read Now: rb.gy/nmc56j
