As pakistani population is growing and prices of homes/plot on increase. Can we have a "new city" or cities not housing schemes in old urban centres?
And these cities must be at distance from existing urban centres.
This is task of govt; but i think private sectors giants like bahria town or other famous can start.
Many countries in world do this for example china.
And in pakistan islamabad is an example and in british times our elders see the development of faislabad.
What you guys have opinion on it?
If you look at the location of bahria phase 8 & DHA in Pindi, and also that of Bahria town Karachi along with DHA city, they can be considered as forming a new city in their own right. In 20 years, Gawadar may also become a vibrant city hopefully.
But prices are still high… Bahria pindi or dha islamabad.
@kashif
yes bahria phase 8 Pindi and DHA City Karachi are far away from main land cities. But these will remain part of main cities in any case. These will be effect resources of main cities.
But separate city like Gawadar will be independent. Countries like Pakistan (with increasing population) should promote new independent cities.
What we desperately need is proper land-use and zoning along with urban planning. We also need to do schooling policy so that people send their kids to schools in the neighbourhood and not 20km from the residence. Without this, irregular development of houses and industries would keep causing environmental nightmare, traffic congestion and ribbon population along main highways.
Http://realestateislamabad.blogspot.com/
Expected Housing Units Requirement in Islamabad
Islamabad is going through rapid expansion and the population growth rate is said to be over 4% per annum. The growth is due to multiple factors including better law and order situation in the city, plentiful of educational institutions, thousands of government jobs in all sorts of federal government departments and divisions, better infrastructure, head offices of a number of corporates and various development agencies. Manufacturing and trading activities are limited but adjoining Rawalpindi is a major trading hub and stands as the main supply base for the north of country.
At the current rate of growth the city population is expected to double in 15 years and the city would need to house additional 1.5 million to 2 million people. This means that there is going to be a tremendous requirement for more plots and houses; the number of additional housing requirement could go as high as 0.5 million units.
To build a house one needs ad plot and luckily for Islamabad there has been some serious amount of addition in plots during the last few years. At the moment there are dozens of housing societies in and around Islamabad. Bahria, DHA, Multi, PAF are some of the bigger names and to go with these there are numerous medium and smaller societies.
I do not have the count of all the plots in these societies but the number must be in hundreds of thousands and these places will play a major role to accommodate the growth in the city. At the same time one has to keep in mind that the available supply is enough for many years to come and any further addition of plots will not find demand very easily.
Having got so many plots the next thing is addition of housing units in these societies. Anyone who has investment should look to secure a plot in one of the more reliable names and then hold it for a few years, three to five years preferably, before starting construction. Immediate construction as an investment is also possible but this should be limited only to a few selected places where the development work is complete and the area has some occupancy.
Alternatively, investment in built units (houses or apartment) is also expected to bring some good returns in the coming days; again one should limit such venture to reliable builders and developers to avoid future inconvenience.
Investment with new entrants into the housing scheme business could be risky and should only be done after caring out thorough investigation and assessment.
Too much of urbanization is not a good thing. It would be better to develop rural areas and promote agriculture by building dams, reservoirs, solar panels to generate energy etc.
@Ali
It's a great point you raised through this discussion. I think instead of horizontal expansion its time that our Government focus on vertical expansions as well.
A fine start can be G-6, G-7 and G-8 sectors where government should demolish all old houses occupied by government servants and build high-rise apartment communities with all the amenities like parks, playground, schools, etc. Government employees will be happy campers as they will no longer have to live in filthy chicken houses they have now and it will bring in more investment in Islamabad. Also it will solve housing problems in Islamabad for at least a while.
But, don't get your hopes up high, a smart man like you who has great ideas will never run the show.....................only corrupt politicians and uneducated land mafia will decide how we grow our communities in future.
