Urban Atlas - What for?

Pakistan is rapidly urbanizing but a reliable and accurate source of information about its urban areas and patterns of urban expansion is missing. To overcome this issue, I have started a long term self-initiated and self-funded project of mapping and measuring Pakistani urban areas using collection and analysis of freely available remote sensing and GIS datasets.

I plan to build an extensive database of image maps and urban analysis of Pakistani cities on this website.

The need of this work arose out of my decade long experience as a professional urban planner working in Pakistan and abroad on the issues of urban planning in and around Pakistan.

The work carried out by LSE Cities, the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy and Pakistani architect Arif Hasan has been an inspiration for me to initiate this effort.

Check out their inspirational work here:

https://urbangovernance.net/en/

http://atlasofurbanexpansion.org/

http://arifhasan.org/

Do share your opinions on this work and how it can be improved and made useful. If you would like to use this material, please get in touch. I can be contacted at m.adeel@lse.ac.uk and townplanneradeel@gmail.com

Best regards

Muhammad Adeel, PhD

LSE Cities, LSE, London, UK