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Master Plans and Encroachments: The Architecture of Informality in Islamabad
Master Plans and Encroachments: The Architecture of Informality in Islamabad
Master Plans and Encroachments: The Architecture of Informality in Islamabad
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Master Plans and Encroachments: The Architecture of Informality in Islamabad

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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.

LanguageEnglish
Release dateOct 17, 2023
ISBN9781512825190
Master Plans and Encroachments: The Architecture of Informality in Islamabad
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Faiza Moatasim

Faiza Moatasim is Assistant Professor of Architecture in Urbanism and Urban Design at the School of Architecture, University of Southern California.

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