The Physical Planning of Lahore: Regional Economic Development Plan

1.1- Sub-sectors

Demography;

- Census data: age, sex pyramid; projected populations; incomes; occupations Census

Land;

- Jurisdiction areas & boundaries

- Topography

- Land-use allocations

- Economy

- Agricultural, industrial, commercial, services etc.

- Sources & linkages: Energy, raw materials, markets

- Workforce

Transportation

- Volumes of traffic

- Modes & Carriers

- Routes, & terminals

Planning Standards

- National Reference Manual on Planning & Infrastructure Standards (NRM)

- Planning regulations, bye-laws, zones

Finance

- Affordability

- Budgets, sources of funds & recovery

Regional Planning:

- Objectives;

- Policies;

- Strategies;

- Plans

- Physical

- Economic

Implementation: agencies, schedules, milestones, budgets

2- Analysis

2.1- History

Critical review of planning and growth of Lahore

Urban history

LUDTS, 1981

LUTMP, 2011

Plans

Patrick Geddes, ?

LIT master Plan 1965

LUDTS 1981

NESPAK Vision 2020

LUTMP, 2011

2.2- Present conditions, issues: assets, deficiencies

Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities & Threats (SWOT) analysis

See JAICA study for Lahore Urban Transport Master Plan, March 2012, Vol.1

Large, Growing & Young Population

• Population: 8.5 million (Lahore District)

• Urban: 82 %

• Rural: 18%

• Growth Rate: 2.5% (national and provincial: 1.9%)

• Densities

• Highest: 1500 persons per hectare (Mustafabad)

• Lowest: 37 persons per hectare (Jauhar Town)

• Average: 208 persons per hectare.

• Age Profile

• Below 14 years: 39.2%

• Between 15 – 49: 50%

• Occupations:

• Services: 38.8 %;

• White collar: 31 %;

• ‘lumpen’: 19.5 %;

• Manufacturing: 10.4 %

Physical Growth

Period	Cumulative Developed Area (km²)	Average Growth Area per year (ha)
Pre-British	23.8
1850 – 1900	68.7	90
1901-1950	71.2	48
1951-65	117.2	323
1966-80	175.7	390
1981-90	245.6	699
1991-2000	326.0	804
2001-2006	397.8	1196

Trends: based on motorized circulation, a 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 are Unsustainable

3- Proposals

3.1- Objectives/Goals

- Conservation of our humanity and our environment

- 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

- A center of urbanity and civilization

- A city that thrives in a symbiotic relationship with its region.

3.2- Policies

The City & its Region:

Cities process primary raw materials, manufacturer 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.

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.

3.3- Strategies

Urban structure based on a conurbation of about 50 towns, each with a maximum population of 250,000

Densities 300 persons per hectare

Physical size of not more than 3 km across

Urbanism:

o Pedestrian circulation at neighborhood level ;

o public transport between neighborhoods;

o restricted use of private motor vehicles;

o Integrate income and occupational groups;

o Integrate land uses, particularly housing, employment and social infrastructure;

o Balance location of urban services and facilities in relation to population for each neighborhood;

Regional Economic Development Plan

Contents:

1- Definition & Scope