Description: Further DetailsTitle: Master Plans and EncroachmentsCondition: NewSubtitle: The Architecture of Informality in IslamabadAuthor: Faiza MoatasimFormat: HardbackISBN-10: 1512825204EAN: 9781512825206ISBN: 9781512825206Publisher: University of Pennsylvania PressGenre: Architecture & AntiquesTopic: History, Science Nature & MathRelease Date: 10/17/2023Description: Among urban designers and municipal officials, the term encroachment is defined as a deviation from the official master plan. But in cities today, such informal modifications to the urban fabric are deeply enmeshed with formal planning procedures. Master Plans and Encroachments examines informality in the high-modernist city of Islamabad as a strategic conformity to official schemes and regulations rather than as a deviation from them.For the new administrative capital of Pakistan designed in 1959 by Greek architect and planner Constantinos A. Doxiadis, Islamabad’s master plan offers a clear template of formal urban design within which informal spaces and processes have been articulated. Drawing on deep archival research, wide-ranging interviews, and an array of visual material, including photographs, maps, and architectural drawings, Faiza Moatasim shows how Islamabad’s master plan is not simply a blueprint that guides future urban development or makes its violations apparent; it is used by both city officials and citizens to develop informal spaces that accommodate unfulfilled needs and desires of those living and working in the city.Master Plans and Encroachments is the first book that examines the informal practices of both the privileged and the underprivileged. The book highlights how low-, middle-, and upper-income people do not randomly build informal spaces; they strategically use architectural techniques to support their informal claims to space, which are often met with the government’s tacit approval. By focusing on those spaces in Islamabad’s urban fabric that are not part of its official master plan, the book demonstrates how planning actually works in complex ways.Language: EnglishCountry/Region of Manufacture: USItem Height: 229mmItem Length: 152mmBook Series: City in the Twenty-First CenturyRelease Year: 2023 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Publication Name: Master Plans and Encroachments
Title: Master Plans and Encroachments
Subtitle: The Architecture of Informality in Islamabad
ISBN-10: 1512825204
EAN: 9781512825206
ISBN: 9781512825206
Release Date: 10/17/2023
Release Year: 2023
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Series: City in the Twenty-First Century
Book Title: Master Plans and Encroachments : the Architecture of Informality in Islamabad
Number of Pages: 248 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Topic: Urban & Land Use Planning, Public Policy / City Planning & Urban Development, Asia / India & South Asia
Publication Year: 2023
Item Height: 1.1 in
Illustrator: Yes
Genre: Political Science, Architecture, History
Item Weight: 18.9 Oz
Item Length: 9.3 in
Author: Faiza Moatasim
Book Series: The City in the Twenty-First Century Ser.
Item Width: 6.7 in
Format: Hardcover
