1. CONTROL AND CONTESTATION OF SPACE AND EMERGING SAFETY AND SECURITY ISSUES IN KARACHI By Noman Ahmed, Bushra Owais Siddiqui, Dureshahwar Khalil And Sana Tajuddin DEPARTMENT OF ARCHITECTURE AND PLANNING, NED UNIVERSITY

2. OBJECTIVES: To outline the forces and actors that are transforming urban spaces in Karachi in the wake of emerging safety and security situation of the city. To analyze the different initiatives that people have resorted to for safeguarding residences, places of worship, public spaces, work spaces and other typologies of spaces To examine how these interventions have changed the status of conventional public, semi public and semi private place in functional and jurisdictional manner.

3. RESEARCH METHODOLOGY Reports, media based coverage, pamphlets and other publications Photographic and video documentation Structured and unstructured interviews Silent probe and observations in the peri urban locations. Duration : Jan 2014 – Oct 2014

4. Forced cul de sacs Gulshan e iqbal block 9, North Nazimabad Block C, Ancholi, Azizabad 90) Muted footpaths and diminishing thresholds Military bases, consulates and embassies, educational institutions, government and private institutions, hotels, commercial centers, rangers headquarters, police thanas. Fortification Bilawal house, central jail, gated communities Restricted routes MA Jinnah road, Numaish Secluded peri urban spaces Lyari, Orangi, Korangi and Baldia ) TYPES OF SPACES AND STUDY LOCATIONS

5. DEPARTMENT OF ARCHITECTURE AND PLANNING, NED UNIVERSITY CONCLUSION

6. OVERVIEW The documentary follows a systematic glance to the transforming physical spaces and urban outlook of Karachi. It also creates an understanding about the responses of the people in addressing the dangerous law and order situation of the city and the impacts of those responses. This research informs about the reasons and situations that have influenced and caused the uproar of violence, crime and illegal activities in the city. It analyzes the diverse types of urban conflicts, their potential causes and impacts on urban spaces. As a result of this research, the potential areas of concern are highlighted, and deduced by the analysis of available and relevant statistics, interviews with concerned professionals, social workers and politicians.

7. LESSON LEARNT Barriers are an irreversible reality A new typology of spaces has evolved comprising of active carriage ways but passive and non-accessible footpaths. People divided as beneficiaries and affectees of barriers New institutional arrangements are needed Invisible peri-urban localities need attention and reforms

8. QUESTIONS If not barricading, then what other alternatives can protect the high security risk areas? If barriers are an irreversible reality, then in what other ways can their design be explored? Example translucent barriers etc. If fighting the insurgents is the long term fix then what other short/long term solutions can be proposed apart from barricading?