I request you to imagine the feelings of this woman and all other men and women who have to struggle to just cross the road to and from the place of their work and home just to do their daily chores or make their living.

There's a famous quote by Jan Gehl (a Danish Architect and Urban Design consultant): "First we shape the cities — then they shape us." Which means that the physical layout of neighborhoods, cities, and homes has environmental impact on human beings as it dictates their daily habits, mental health, and social behavior. In todays time, if anyone says that they haven't heard of it or aren't aware of it. Then all I can say is that I am deeply disappointed on how naive they are a

Co-authored by Muhammed Wasif Jalal. The long-delayed Lahore Elevated Expressway project, first conceived nearly a decade ago and...

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(I am glad that we have Urban Planner Muhammad Wasif Jalal in our team for the hard stuff like statistics and urban analysis. So the...

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"It's not what you do for your children, but what you teach them to do for themselves, that will make them successful human beings."...

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