Madelyne Oliver

Cities in India 198

Associate Professor Alka Patel, UCI

Associate Professor Robert Brown, UCLA

From Spaces to Places: Lahore disassembles the idea of a “Western” and “Modern” city

Western Cities: New Orleans and Baltimore

The Organic city: Lahore

Dimensions Typical land use elements Typical associational/psychosocial elements

Physiological needs

Roads, Stores, food production and distribution facilities, waste management facilities, energy generating facilities, auto-oriented uses, transportation-related facilities, hospitals

Emergency servicesJob opportunitiesEquitable distribution of public services and publicly available resourcesEquitable access from residence to elements that meet all four human needs dimensions

Relational needs

Plazas/public squares, bars, residential enclaves, business districts, places of worship, community centers, theaters, historic and cultural sites

Social clubsCivic organizationsArts associationsFestivalsCommunity rituals

Self-actualization needs

Schools, museums, galleries, passive recreation, business incubators

CompetitionsOpenness to diversityFair opportunities to engage in governanceOpenness to diversity and change

Environmental needs

Parks, open space, streetscaping,

ConservanciesNeighborhood associations

Four dimensions of human needs that transform a ‘space’ into a ‘place’

--Leonardo Vazquez, AICP/PP

The Food Streets:Gawalmandi Food Street

The Mall Food Street at night

Aerial view of The Mall Food Street

The Parks/Gardens:

Model Town Park

Playing cricket and Minar-i-Pakistan at Iqbal Park

The Bazaars:

Moti Bazaar with Wazir Khan Mosque in the backgroundPhoto courtesy of ©Noor Mohammad Khan

Landa Bazaar, Photo courtesy of ©Zarin Shoaib

Cantonment (British Military engineered zone):

Map of Lahore in 1927 of the Cantonment

Suburbia: Gulberg