Mansoor Raza

  • Understanding the ordinary

    A comprehensive understanding of the life of a ‘commoner’ and the means and methods of people’s upward social mobility is mandatory for urban...

  • Revival of unions

    In a landmark decision, the Sindh Assembly recently passed a bill to restore student unions. According to the bill, a student union will be formed...

  • Work and the family

    As an observer of changes in family structures in Pakistan, I can state with a certain level of confidence that the changes in family structure are...

  • Changes in the family

    As a teacher of sociology, I have observed the changes taking place in the family structure of Pakistan for quite some time.Noted architect and town...

  • Response to climate change

    The danger is clear and present. Pakistan ranked 153rd in a list of countries emitting greenhouse gas. According to some research, it is also the...

  • Dwindling public spaces

    A lot many public spaces in Karachi have vanished away and succumbed to the pressures of elite-steered real-estate development.The causes of the...

  • An unfinished end

    As per standard definitions, a public-private partnership involves collaboration between a government agency and a private-sector company that can...

  • Planning the city

    No matter how industriously master plans of cities are made, because of the prevalent bureaucratic work culture the operationalization of these will...

  • Covid-19 and housing

    It has been observed that some think tanks, international donors and planners are of the view that the densification of cities and increasing Floor...

  • Redefining sustainability

    It is believed, promoted and propagated by institutional donors, new bureaucrats, academics and politicians that sustainable development is the...