The Lahore Project Regional Physical Plan outlines a vision for Lahore as a sustainable urban center that prioritizes human values and environmental conservation over capitalist growth models. It discusses urban strategies, planning criteria, and alternative development strategies aimed at achieving a symbiotic relationship between the city and its region. Key tasks include reviewing planning methodologies and developing comprehensive regional criteria to bridge existing gaps in urban infrastructure and services.

1. The Lahore Project
Regional Physical Plan
• Outline:
– Vision/Goal/Objective
– Urban Ecology
– Urban Strategies
– Lahore
– Planning Criteria
– Derived Parameters
– Proposed Regional
Structure
– Alternate Development
Strategies
– Tasks Ahead

2. Global Capitalism‟s Vision
is
A Recipe for Disaster!
• We do not share the corporate capitalist vision
of rapid urbanization as an investment
opportunity, and cities as employment markets,
whose expanding size provides economies of
scale for profiteers who are valorized for their
contribution to the national exchequer.

3. Our Vision for Lahore
A center of urbanity and civilization
A city that thrives in a symbiotic relationship
with its region.

4. Our Goal
• Realization of our highest human potential.
• the greatest challenges of the new millennium is
the conservation of our humanity and our
environment
• Our humanity is defined by the universal set of
qualities and values that define what it means to
be “human” – qualities such as
Love, Compassion, Justice and Beauty – not by
quantities such as gross national
product, monetary wealth and material
possessions

5. The City & its Region
• Cities process primary raw materials,
manufacture secondary products and provide
services.
• Economically they are integrated with the
region that produces the primary products,
and the region to which they provide goods
and services.

6. Parasite & Host
• In a symbiotic relationship, the value of what
each takes from the other is more or less
equivalent to what it gives.
• In a parasitic relationship the city extracts
resources in excess of their rates of renewal
and re-generation, and produces toxic and
non-recyclable waste.

7. Urban Strategies
• Cities are the biggest
consumers & the
biggest polluters
• Causes: • Sustainable cities:
– Mechanised – Pedestrian circulation
transportation
– Integration
– Segregation
– Low-rise
– High rise
– Low-tech
– High tech
– High density
– Low density

8. Physical Growth
Large, Growing &
Young Population
&
Unsustainable Physical
Growth Trends
based on
motorized circulation,
single central high-rise business
district and cultural center
low-density suburbs, segregated and
widely separated land-use zones
and
open-ended growth in the size of its
population and physical area

9. Planning Criteria
Quantity
Variables Unit
Sustainable cropland
Area: ha/capita 0.07
Urban Desity persons/ha 300
Walking speed km/hour 4
Commuting Time hours 0.5
ha/plow(animal
Max.Farm size drawn) 5
Household size persons 7
Population persons 14068538
Other Uses Area % 30
Available Area km.sq 14687

10. Typical Farming
settlement
Max.Farming
Unit Quantity Derived
Area
km.sq. 13 Parameters
Farming
Households house 251 • Lahore Division is a Sustainable
Region
Farming
Population persons 1759
persons/km. 40
Density sq. 140
20
Typical Urban Settlement
Urban Area km.sq. 13
0
Urban
Population persons 376991
-20
Lahore
Regional Land Use Division
Times surplus/deficient
-40
Cropland Area km.sq. 9848
Urban Area
km.sq. 469 -60
Other Uses km.sq. 3095
-80
TOTAL km.sq. 13412
Times surplus/deficient
Surplus
-100
(Deficient) km.sq. 1275

11. Proposed Regional Structure
Population
/Unit Units Quantity
4000 Village 400
17000 Town 80
375000 city 11
Metropolis
comprising of 18
7000000 „cities‟ 1

12. Alternate Development Strategies
Union Council Pop. = 38282
Persons Area:
Density /hectares hectares
Highest 1500 25.5
high 700 54.7
Low 125 306.3
Lowest 37 1034.6

13. Alternate Development Strategies
Motorized Walkable
Union Council Town
Pop: 38282 Pop: 306256
Area: 9 sq km Area: 4 sq. km
Density: 42.5/ha Density: 765/ha

14. Alternate Development Strategies
Motorised City Green City
Pop: 2,450,048 Pop: 2,450,048 Density: 765/ha

15. Alternate Development Strategies
Green Megalopolis
Pop: 9,800,192

16. Tasks Ahead
• Review Planning • Develop Regional
Criteria: Strategies for:
– Parametrix – variables & – Demography
standards – Land
• Data tabulation & – Social Infrastructure
mapping: – Transportation
– existing community – Utility Infrastructure
units; – Environment
– existing social services; – Culture
– Existing utility – Governance
infrastructure

17. Community
(source)
Surplus (deficient)
Units
GOP)
Existing
(Based on National Reference
Mannual on Planning & Infrastructure
Quantity
Standard (persons/Unit)
Standards, Min. of Housing & Works,
Units
Dwellings 7 Household 2009791 ? #VALUE!
3 Apartment 4689513 ? #VALUE!
Nieghborhood 120 Gali 117238 ? #VALUE!
400 Koocha 35171 ? #VALUE!
1500 Mohalla 9379 ? #VALUE!
Urban Settlement 4000 Village 400 ? #VALUE!
17000 Town 80 ? #VALUE!
375000 city 11 ? #VALUE!
7000000 Metropolis 1? #VALUE!
total:
Administrative
Unit 1500000 Tehsil 9? #VALUE!
7000000 District 2? #VALUE!
14068538 Division 1? #VALUE!

18. (source)
Surplus (deficient)
Units
Existing
(Based on National Reference Mannual on
of Housing & Works, GOP)
Quantity
Standard (persons/Unit)
Planning & Infrastructure Standards, Min.
Social
Services
Education 1500 Primary Schools 9379 ? #VALUE!
4375 High School 3216 ? #VALUE!
25000 Vocational School 563 ? #VALUE!
100000 College 141 ? #VALUE!
Health 1500 Health worker 9379 ? #VALUE!
25000 Dispensary 563 ? #VALUE!
100000 Polycare 141 ? #VALUE!
Recreation 1500 play-lot 9379 ? #VALUE!
25000 Sports Ground 563 ? #VALUE!
25000 Family Park 563 ? #VALUE!
25000 Swimming Pool 563 ? #VALUE!
250000 Stadium 56 ? #VALUE!

19. Social
(source)
Surplus (deficient)
Mannual on Planning &
Infrastructure Standards, Min. of
Units
Existing
(Based on National Reference
Housing & Works, GOP)
Quantity
Standard (persons/Unit)
Services
Community 25000 Commun.Center 563 ? #VALUE!
25000 Mosque 563 ? #VALUE!
25000 Library 563 ? #VALUE!
25000 Literacy Center 563 ? #VALUE!
25000 Vocational School 563 ? #VALUE!
100000 Jami Mosque 141 ? #VALUE!
Commercial 120 Shop 117238 ? #VALUE!
400 Bazaar 35171 ? #VALUE!
25000 Local Market 563 ? #VALUE!
100000 District Market 141 ? #VALUE!
Utility Services 120 S.Waste Collect. Point 117238 ? #VALUE!
400 PCO/Telephone 35171 ? #VALUE!
25000 Post Office 563 11 (551.74)
100000 Police station 141 ? #VALUE!

20. (source)
Units
Existing
Surplus (deficient)
Standard per person
Quantity
Utility
Infrastructure
Water 0.135 cu.m/c/d 1899 ? #VALUE!
sewerage ? #VALUE!
drainage ? #VALUE!
electricity ? #VALUE!
gas ? #VALUE!
telephone ? #VALUE!