Karachi Urban Lab

KUL is a collaborative experiment in critical urban thinking. It is housed in the School of Economics & Social Sciences @ibakarachi. Founder @nha3383

[Karachi Urban Lab @KarachiUrbanLab]

1/3 In light of recent heatwaves in South Asia & devastating impacts, it is pertinent to reexamine how we understand heat as a phenomenon & approaches to manage it. As part of @GCRF funded collaborative project @thermalcultures this Scoping Study look at Karachi’s heat space 👇

[Karachi Urban Lab @KarachiUrbanLab]

📅 Friday, 5 June 2026 🕓 4 pm Delhi | 3:30 pm Karachi | 4:30 pm Dhaka 🔗 Register here: https://t.co/gPSw7sA9tW 👉 Learn more about the project: https://t.co/eVmuF8ultC

[Karachi Urban Lab @KarachiUrbanLab]

Upcoming #USFSeminarSeriesAwards Event

These series of Masterclasses are a part of the USF Project: Ordinary Ecologies of Repair. Karachi Urban Lab will be hosting a masterclass very soon, but this Friday, we learn from the Hyderabad Team. Please Register for the event and join.

[Karachi Urban Lab @KarachiUrbanLab]

"Marammat: Youth Holding the City Together" is the opening masterclass from Hyderabad. " This seminar series funded by the #USF, wants to make visible ordinary ecologies of repair across five South Asian cities: Hyderabad, Delhi, Dhaka, Chennai and Karachi.

[Karachi Urban Lab @KarachiUrbanLab]

Seminar on #ExtremeHeat and #UrbanResilience led by KUL director @UrbanPlannerNED - bringing together practitioners, researchers, and humanitarian leaders to reflect on the growing climate risks facing our cities.
@ibakhiofficial
@sess_iba #Karachi #IndoorTemperatures #heatwave

[Karachi Urban Lab @KarachiUrbanLab]

We marched today at Frere Hall on the 21st December 2025 for #ClimateMarchKarachi. Climate change is not distant or abstract — it is lived daily through heat, floods, rising seas, food loss, and displacement in cities like Karachi.
@UrbanPlannerNED @nha3383 #HeatCrisis #floods

[Karachi Urban Lab @KarachiUrbanLab]

We support the #KarachiClimateMarch2025 — because climate crisis in Karachi is not abstract. It is lived daily through heat, water scarcity, displacement, and deepening urban inequality. Climate justice must centre the city’s most vulnerable.
@nha3383
@UrbanPlannerNED

[Karachi Urban Lab @KarachiUrbanLab]

Happening Now
we are unpacking human costs often overshadowed in mega-infrastructure projects ML-1(Mainline-1) CPEC project reflects familiar patterns of uncertainty & displacement seen across Pakistan
@InvisibleMapper @urbaninstitute @nha3383 @UrbanPlannerNED

[Karachi Urban Lab @KarachiUrbanLab]

Community members, activists & researchers are invited to join, as we unpack human costs often overshadowed in mega-infrastructure projects ML-1(Mainline-1) CPEC project reflects familiar patterns of uncertainty & displacement seen across Pakistan
@InvisibleMapper @urbaninstitute

[Prof Nausheen H Anwar @nha3383]

An immense pleasure to have co-authored this piece with my former
IBA student @Etha0296 On mobility infrastructures and female domestic workers in Karachi, #Pakistan

[Muhammad Toheed, Urban Planner @UrbanPlannerNED]

My latest piece 'Disaster in waiting' published in @thenews_intl Sunday Magzine.

With building safety on the back-burner for decades, it is really surprising that over 400 buildings in the city are dangerous for habitation?
@KarachiUrbanLab
#UrbanGovernance @nha3383 #Karachi

[Global Heat Health Information Network @heathealth_info]

Heat kills, and the risks are growing. Health systems must adapt.

At #WHA78, @RockefellerFdn & @wellcometrust announced $11.5M for the @WHO - @WMO Joint Programme. We are immensely grateful for this support and what it means for protecting people from #extremeheat!

[tabadlab @tabadlab]

How does extreme heat impact public health and how can policy responses account for the scale of the challenge?🌡️🩺

Hear from Dr @nha3383 (@KarachiUrbanLab) on the latest Tabadlab Live.👇

https://t.co/JjWwToHIsa

#UrbanResilience #ClimateAdaptation

[Urban Violence @ViolenceinCity]

Governance failures have left #Karachi’s infrastructure broken & its people vulnerable. Why do planning gaps persist? Who holds the power, and what must change? 🏗️⚖️

Let’s unpack the city’s governance maze together!
@KarachiUrbanLab
@UrbanPlannerNED
@cackarachi
@TheCitizenryPk

[Prof Nausheen H Anwar @nha3383]

Check out ⁦@KarachiUrbanLab⁩ updated publications page 👉👉👉👉👉👉👉 Publications - KUL | Karachi Urban Lab. Lots of new stuff on #climatechange #heatwaves #infrastructures #risk https://t.co/ngDYDhQUeA

[Heat Resilience & Performance Centre @hrpcsg]

1 DAY TO GO! Tomorrow marks the beginning of the First GHHIN Southeast Asia Heat Health Forum, a pivotal event bringing together thought leaders, policymakers, and experts from around the globe. https://t.co/AWiTGMhSAD

[Prof Nausheen H Anwar @nha3383]

Amazing conversations at CIFAR Humanity’s Urban Future meeting in Vienna; pecial because of these wonderful, generous, amazing women /colleagues: Julie-Anne Boudreau , Xuefei Ren, Grace Adeniyi-Ogunyankin. ❤️ And thank you Ash Amin for taking the photo!

[School of Economics and Social Sciences(SESS), IBA @sess_iba]

Proud to share that Dr. Nausheen Anwar (@nha3383), Professor of Urban Studies at Dept. of Social Sciences & Liberal Arts, delivered the Wolfson Sarfraz Pakistan Lecture 2024 at @WolfsonCollege, @UniofOxford. Her talk, "Splintered Inhabitations? Heatscapes & Cooling Futures in Urban Pakistan," explores how intensifying heat shapes urban life & resilience, especially in Karachi’s informal settlements.

Watch the full lecture here: https://t.co/PZwIElXjKt

[db. @thelahorewala]

The following has been collaboratively authored by a group 27 Pakistani #AirQuality experts, urging @CMShehbaz to implement immediate and long-term measures for tackling hazardous Air quality in the country.