Archinect - News2024-05-06T11:02:36-04:00https://archinect.com/news/article/74584622/lahore-authorities-battle-to-restore-splendour-of-ancient-walled-city
Lahore authorities battle to restore splendour of ancient Walled City Archinect2013-06-04T17:19:00-04:00>2013-06-04T17:19:51-04:00
<img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/7g/7goa03ntt17vad4g.jpg?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><em><p>The Walled City's gardens and squares are now obscured by illegal shops and businesses, the skyline cluttered by unplanned tenements and bundles of cables. For many of the 200,000 inhabitants crammed into these 4sq km, a fraction of Lahore's 7m population, drinking water is a rarity.
But last month the new Walled City of Lahore Authority met for the first time. The body oversees the ambitious plan to restore the past glory of the city's oldest neighbourhood.</p></em><br /><br /><!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/loose.dtd">
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