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Showing 1 to 20 of 37 for “"Lahore"”.
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Dwelling environments : a comparative analysis, Lahore, Pakistan
Thesis. 1979. M.Arch.A.S.--Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Architecture.
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Dwelling environments : urban expansion project, Gujjarpura, Lahore, Pakistan
Thesis (M.Arch.A.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 1980.
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A Conservation Study of the Naulakha Pavilion at Lahore Fort, Pakistan
… marble elements of the Naulakha Pavilion at the Lahore Fort in Pakistan, built by the Mughal emperor Shah Jahan. The scope of work includes the two sets of adjoining jalis (lattice screens) on either side of the pavilion, that are self-supporting. The jalis along with the decorative veneer of the …
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Shadows of Empire: The Mughal and British Colonial Heritage of Lahore
<p>The Pakistani city of Lahore is the capital of the Punjab province. The city itself has existed for over a thousand years. In 1947 the British rule in the Indian subcontinent ended, resulting in the partition of British India into the modern states of India and Pakistan. At the time the Punjab …
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Epidemiological Landscapes: The Spaces and Politics of Mosquito Control in Lahore
… of vector control in and around the city of Lahore. It draws on the historiography of empire and disease to attend to the ways in which landscapes of disease are deeply marked by longstanding and renewing inequalities — while keeping a critical eye on narratives that present the fracturing …
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Continuities and discontinuities in urban development institutions : a case study of Lahore Development Authority
City development authorities are one of the key institutions in urban development and planning in South Asian cities. Pakistan and India share a history and have experienced the similar trend of Town Improvement Trusts established by the British transforming into Development Authorities. Both these …
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Continuity, stability and exchange : design transformations of/projections for a housing project in Lahore
… transformation of an existing housing project in Lahore, Pakistan is the design exercise employed in this thesis to explore these issues of building exchange in the physical environment, using the concepts of continuity and stability.
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FROM MARKAZ TO MULK: LAHORE, MAGAZINES, AND THE PLACE OF URDU IN LATE COLONIAL INDIA, 1900-1950
… of 20th century Urdu culture. Focusing on Lahore, where Urdu was not the native language, I show how the city came to be recognized as an important space of Urdu literature and publishing. Lahore rose to the status of a markaz, or center, as part of complex historical processes that …
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A Qualitative Analysis of the Narratives of Women Imprisoned for Killing in a Prison in Lahore, Pakistan
… prisoners in a segregated compound within in Lahore, Pakistan. These women had been remanded in judicial custody or convicted for murder. The results show complex interactions between agency and structural forces that shape women’s pathways to prison and violence. In particular, this study …
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Enabling and inhibiting urban development : a case study of Lahore Improvement Trust as a late colonial institution
This thesis examines the Lahore Improvement Trust in relation to the urban development of the city of Lahore in mid-twentieth century. LIT was responsible for most major urban development in the city from 1936 up until 1975, when it metamorphosed into the Lahore Development Authority. However, its …
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Urban design, climate + context: Exploring the interplay of thermal comfort and human perception in the case of Lahore, Pakistan.
… neighbourhoods – Mohallaz in the Walled City of Lahore, Pakistan. Users of urban open spaces are the fulcrum, and the intended Man vs. Machine conceptual framework is a robust side-by-side comparative analysis of the unique domains of urban microclimates, human psychology, and behaviour. The …
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Inside the App Bureaucracy: The Use of Smartphone Apps in Public Service Delivery Organizations in Pakistan
… involve the anti-Dengue program in the city of Lahore, garbage collection agency in Lahore, crime mapping by Lahore police and school monitoring by the provincial school department in the province of Punjab (which includes Lahore). Using a detailed analytical framework, I trace out the evolution …
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Qualitative Inquiry into the Everyday Experiences of Secondary School Students within Significant Spheres of their Lifeworld: Family, Friends and School – Narratives from Lahore
… everyday experiences of a few young people from Lahore. Focusing on young people in secondary schools, this exploratory qualitative inquiry is based on interviews with 19 girls and 15 boys, ranging in ages from 14 years to 18 years. Taking into account the contextual realities, this research …
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From artifact to site : understanding the canal in the city of gardens
… of its history of Mughal gardens and waterworks, Lahore has been construed in local imaginations as "the city of gardens". In this thesis I argue that the contemporary usage of this popular urban motif is rooted in the nineteenth-century planning of the city and the concurrent development of the …
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Processual preservation of the city within a city : the (in)formal inhabitation of heritage
… has been dealt with in the Walled City of Lahore, Pakistan. I assess the conservation approaches in the city of Lahore and address the impact of colonial narratives by providing an alternate approach to conservation that is embedded in the culture.
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An evaluation of the engagement of the Pakistani churches in mission: a comparative study on Church of Pakistan (Lahore and Hyderabad dioceses) and Full Gospel Assemblies of Pakistan
… of mission engagement of the Church of Pakistan (Lahore and Hyderabad Dioceses) and of the Full Gospel Assemblies of Pakistan. It brings out their similarities and differences, as well as issues of growth and decline, specifically as they affect their mission engagement and therefore their success …
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The Role of Intermediary Firms in Pakistan’s Integration into Automotive Global Production Networks
… automotive sector, with a specific focus on the Lahore region of Pakistan. Drawing on the GPN framework, which conceptualizes production as a spatially and institutionally embedded process coordinated across borders, this study introduces and theorizes the concept of OEM-mediated GPNs, a distinct …
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A Study on Mobility: Pakistani-Origin Muslim Youth in Higher Education
… Muslim college students in New York City and in Lahore, Pakistan. My ethnographic approach follows the multiple and overlapping mobility trajectories of transnational youth as marked by particular, semiotic practices and narratives. During the 16 months of fieldwork, my focal fieldsites—the …
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The Political Aesthetic of the Medieval Persian Prison Poem, 1100-1200
… specific prison poems by Mas'ud Sa'd Salman of Lahore (d. 1121), Khaqani Shirwani (d. 1199), and of other prison poets from these regions, are offered alongside documentary explorations into the status of non-Muslim minorities in Saljuq domains, the transformation of a predominantly panegyric …
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Ideology, language attitudes and status of Punjabi in Pakistan
… Sahiwal, and 23 males and 23 females from Lahore city). Interviews employ a questionnaire that is based on Garrett, Bishop, and Coupland (2009). The questionnaire consists of 35 questions that have been divided into two major sections, part one includes themes related to the word ‘Punjabi’ …
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