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Living and Planning on the Edge: Unravelling Conflict and Claim-Making in Peri-Urban Lahore, Pakistan
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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 g... view more
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 - is experienced, disputed, and negotiated in the rapidly urbanizing peri-urban fringe of Lahore. The cases represent different spatial and socio-political configurations brought about by a variety of actors involved in the planning and development of the city’s periphery as well as in contesting development: private developers, the army, the city development authorities, and the residents of affected villages. The analysis unpacks the planning rationalities and mechanisms that reinforce inequalities of access and exclusions. Unfolding practices that enable or hinder actors' ability to access resources sheds light on the complex layers assembled in urban planning in Lahore and serves as a basis to rethink planning towards a more inclusive approach.... view less
Keywords
urbanization; Pakistan; segregation; rural-urban migration; urban planning; urban development; population development; city outskirts; South Asia; periphery; local politics
Classification
Area Development Planning, Regional Research
Sociology of Settlements and Housing, Urban Sociology
Free Keywords
access theory; access-assemblages; assemblage; claim-making; housing; land dispossession; peri-urbanization; qabza; urban governance; urban politics
Document language
English
Publication Year
2021
Page/Pages
p. 189-201
Journal
Urban Planning, 6 (2021) 2
Issue topic
Planning for Rapid Change in Cities
ISSN
2183-7635
Status
Published Version; peer reviewed