Based around the catalyst of a new university, 'Education City' is envisaged as a traditional college or university town where research and academic activities are decentralised and interspersed within mixed-use areas. 

An overall area of up to 32,000 hectares to the east of Peshawar has been identified for new development. In addition to the proposed urban area, this includes expansive areas of formal and informal landscaping for leisure and recreational activities.

Strategic areas have been set aside for future growth and expansion as part of a long term phasing strategy.

Reflecting the site’s undulating topography coupled with the overall intent to decentralise academic activities, the vision is for a consolidated, mixed-use district with a variety of satellite ‘academic villages’, each accommodating a different faculty. Potential development will be sensitively arranged around the site’s natural topography and characteristics and large areas of natural landscaping will be retained.

After completion of the overarching land-use, transportation, open space and phasing strategies, core action areas will be developed in greater level of detail.