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Pakistan's Galloping Urbanization

A full-day conference on Pakistan's rapidly growing cities, and what can be done to address this irreversible phenomenon.

Date & Time

Wednesday
Nov. 6, 2013
9:00am – 4:00pm ET

Location

5th Floor, Woodrow Wilson Center
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Overview

The luncheon keynote address will be webcast live at 1:30 pm. 

Pakistan’s future will largely be written in its cities. Today about a third of Pakistan’s population is urban-based, but that figure is expected to increase to nearly 50 percent within a dozen years. Recent data shows that Karachi’s population grew by 80 percent between 2000 and 2010—the largest such increase of any city in the world. Pakistan’s accelerating urbanization presents huge challenges but simultaneously offers the country a way out of its present multiple dilemmas.

The goal of this conference is to generate new ideas and methods—those that go beyond calls for more public funding—for dealing with a phenomenon that is already well in place and is not going to be halted.

RSVPs are required, please RSVP at this link.

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Asia Program

The Asia Program promotes policy debate and intellectual discussions on U.S. interests in the Asia-Pacific as well as political, economic, security, and social issues relating to the world’s most populous and economically dynamic region.   Read more

Urban Sustainability Laboratory

Since 1991, the Urban Sustainability Laboratory has advanced solutions to urban challenges—such as poverty, exclusion, insecurity, and environmental degradation—by promoting evidence-based research to support sustainable, equitable and peaceful cities.  Read more

Environmental Change and Security Program

The Environmental Change and Security Program (ECSP) explores the connections between environmental change, health, and population dynamics and their links to conflict, human insecurity, and foreign policy.  Read more

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