The Lahore Project is a citizens' initiative aimed at urban conservation and sustainable development in Lahore, focusing on identity, environment, and historical awareness. It promotes a symbiotic relationship between the city and its region, proposing urban strategies to address environmental and social challenges while emphasizing the need for community engagement and informed debate. The project outlines tasks such as developing regional strategies, enhancing social services, and promoting green spaces within the urban framework.

1. The Lahore Project
• A citizens‟ initiative that has grown out of the strategic
framework adopted by the Lahore Conservation Society in 2006.
• To know who we are (identity), where we are
(environment), where we are coming from (history), where we
want to be (goals), and how to act for the achievement of our
goals.
Project of Lahore Conservation Society

2. Sectors
While thinking globally, we must necessarily act locally. Moreover, as
individuals, each one of us has our specific spheres of interest and
expertise in which we can participate most effectively. Thus the project
is divided into focal areas or sectors.
People
Land
Economy
Environment
Culture
Physical Planning
Utility infrastructure
Transportation
Social Infrastructure
Governance

3. Methodology
 A space for the pooling and sharing of information (Data),
 Free and open discussion (Forum),
 Formulation of strategies (Sectors) through a process of informed
debate and concrete plans for action:

4.  Outline:
 Vision/Goal/Objective
 Urban Ecology
 Urban Strategies
 Lahore
 Planning Criteria
 Derived Parameters
 Proposed Regional Structure
Alternate Development Strategies
The Lahore Project 
 Tasks Ahead

5. Global Capitalism‟s Vision
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.
A Recipe for Disaster! Mubarak Center (Project on hold)

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

7. 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

8. 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.

9. 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.

10. Urban Strategies
Cities are the biggest consumers & the biggest polluters
Causes: Sustainable cities:
 Mechanized transportation  Pedestrian circulation
 Segregation  Integration
 High rise  Low-rise
 High tech  Low-tech
 Low density  High density

11. 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

12. Planning Criteria
Quantity
Variables Unit
Sustainable
cropland Area: ha/capita 0.07
Urban Density 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
“Parametrix”, tool for Population persons 14068538
mapping and analysis of Regional
Physical Planning data. Other Uses Area % 30
Available Area km.sq 14687

13. Typical Farming
settlement Unit Quantity
Max.Farming
Derived Area
km.sq. 13
Parameters Farming
Households house 251
Farming
Population persons 1759
persons/km.
Density sq. 140
Typical Urban Settlement
Urban Area km.sq. 13
Urban
Population persons 376991
General template with a set of Lahore
variables, from which are derived Regional Land Use Division
parameters for different types of Cropland Area km.sq. 9848
Settlements, Regional Land Use; Urban Area
Community Units; Social km.sq. 469
Services; and Utility
Infrastructure. Other Uses km.sq. 3095
TOTAL km.sq. 13412
Surplus
(Deficient) km.sq. 1275

14. 40
20
While the regions of
0
Punjab
and Lahore Division have
surplus land
-20
capacities, Lahore District
is not a sustainable region.
Times
surplus/deficient
We therefore propose to
-40
take Lahore Division as
the region for the physical
and economic plan
-60
-80
Times surplus/deficient
-100

15. Proposed Regional Structure
Population Quantit
/Unit Units y
4000 Village 400
17000 Town 80 Lahore Division is a
Sustainable Region
375000 city 11
Metropolis
comprising of 18
7000000 „cities‟ 1

16. 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

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

18. { Motorised City
Pop: 2,450,048 { Green City
Pop: 2,450,048 Density: 765/ha

19. Green Megalopolis
Pop: 9,800,192
Surplus Urban area can
be used for increasing
green spaces or to
accommodate
population growth

20. Tasks Completed
 Terms of reference:
 Re-writing LDA’s
ISDP TORs as an
organizing framework
for the Lahore Project
 Vision Statement
 Regional Economic
Strategy
 Regional Strategic Plan
 Parametrix
 Planning tool

21. Tasks Ahead
 Review Planning  Develop Regional
Criteria: Strategies for:
1. Parametrix – variables 1. Demography
& standards
2. Land
3. Social Infrastructure
 Data tabulation & 4. Transportation
mapping: 5. Utility Infrastructure
1. Existing community 6. Environment
units;
7. Culture
2. Existing social services;
8. Governance
3. Existing utility
infrastructure

22. Work in Progress
 Community units
 Social Services
 Utility Infrastructure

23. (source)
Surplus (deficient)
Units
Existing
(Based on National Reference Mannual
Quantity
Standard (persons/Unit)
Min. of Housing & Works, GOP)
on Planning & Infrastructure Standards,
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!
2?
Community Units 7000000 District #VALUE!
14068538 Division 1 ? #VALUE!

24. (source)
Units
Surplus (deficient)
Planning & Infrastructure Standards, Min. of
Existing
(Based on National Reference Mannual on
Housing & Works, GOP)
Quantity
Standard (persons/Unit)
Education 1500 Primary Schools 9379 ? #VALUE!
4375 High School 3216 ? #VALUE!
Vocational
25000 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!
Social Services 25000 Swimming Pool 563 ? #VALUE!
250000 Stadium 56 ? #VALUE!

25. (source)
Surplus (deficient)
Mannual on Planning &
Infrastructure Standards, Min. of
Units
Existing
(Based on National Reference
Housing & Works, GOP)
Quantity
Standard (persons/Unit)
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!
S.Waste Collect.
Utility Services 120 Point 117238 ? #VALUE!
400 PCO/Telephone 35171 ? #VALUE!
Social Services 25000 Post Office 563 11 (551.74)
100000 Police station 141 ? #VALUE!

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

27. Join Us
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