Instant city : life and death in Karachi
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TextPublication details: New Delhi Penguin viking 2011Description: 284 pISBN: 9780670086078Subject(s): travel | Urbanization | bombings | Pakistan--KarachiDDC classification: 954.9183 Summary: An incisive portrait of karachi, pakistan, a city that illuminates the perils and possibilities of rapidly growing metropolises all around the world in recent decades, the world has seen an unprecedented shift of people from the countryside into cities as steve ins keep so aptly puts it, we are now living in the age of the instant city, when new megacities can emerge practically overnight, creating a host of unique pressures surrounding land use, energy, housing, and the environment in his first book, inskeep explores how this epic migration has transformed one of the world’s most intriguing instant cities: karachi, pakistan
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An incisive portrait of karachi, pakistan, a city that illuminates the perils and possibilities of rapidly growing metropolises all around the world in recent decades, the world has seen an unprecedented shift of people from the countryside into cities as steve ins keep so aptly puts it, we are now living in the age of the instant city, when new megacities can emerge practically overnight, creating a host of unique pressures surrounding land use, energy, housing, and the environment in his first book, inskeep explores how this epic migration has transformed one of the world’s most intriguing instant cities: karachi, pakistan
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