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Lahore : “Cities are for people and thriving and inclusive cities offer something for everyone living there. World has moved to adopt the New Urban Agenda that stresses nothing but cities for all approach. In Pakistan we lag behind in city beautification initiatives because of the lack of sustainability factors in our major projects. We start, finish but fail to sustain the pace thus ending up in losing major projects in files and databases.
The food streets and plantation drives in Lahore are one big example of the same,” Kamran Lashari was speaking on City Dialogue hosted by the Urban Unit.
The Director General Walled City Authority Lahore Kamran Lashari was the 6th speaker in Saturday City Dialogue held at Quaid e Azam Library Lahore. His presentation focused on major success stories he completed during his career till date with the ongoing work being done in the walled city Lahore.
He presented model work done in various cities for improving their aesthetics while offering some public spaces for the citizens too. He was of the view that people should be more involved in cities’ beautification initiatives as their inclusion makes things sustainable and promising while avoiding mishandling of some very important and unique public spaces.
He termed Wazir Khan Mosque restoration project as mini miracle given its geographical location and complex network of small vendors around it. Besides many others he also announced Night Tourism to be started from 10th March in Lahore that will be yet another step to restore and revive the city’s centuries old culture and enchanting beauty.
Lashari lamented the fact that we are left with no walking culture as we have no walking margins left in the city. At a time when half of Europe has been turned into the open cafés, we are deprived of little pleasures and recreational opportunities in urban life.
The packed City Dialogue was attended by a number of town planners, architects, government officials, students and civil society members. Ms. Fouzia Qureshi, Dr. Nadeem ul Haque, Abdul Razzaq, Rizwan Ahmed, Dr. Zeeshan Khan, Col. (R.) Mubashar Ahmed, Ms. Amber Ali and many others made it to attend the dialogue through the end to listen to DG WCLA and learn from his diverse experiences.
The dialogue participants asserted that as a nation we are more on the side of being the joy-killers as we cannot manage to celebrate and enjoy things with a positive and healthy civic sense. We need to inculcate a sense of enjoyment that is harmless and generates pleasure instead of making losses to individuals and society both.
Dr. Nasir Javed CEO Urban Unit expressed gratitude to audience for making the dialogue a success in terms of participation and ideas and knowledge exchange. The next City Dialogue, taking place on 10th March, will feature Salman Sufi as guest speaker and presenter.
