Maqsood, Ammara and Moffat, Chris and Sajjad, Fizzah (Eds).
(2025)
Lahore in motion: infrastructure, history and belonging in urban Pakistan.
[Book].
UCL Press: London.
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Abstract
Lahore in Motion provides a portrait of the Pakistani metropolis by tracing the path of the city's first metro rail corridor. Construction for this major piece of public infrastructure began in 2015 and, over subsequent years, the nascent ‘Orange Line’ rapidly reconfigured Lahore’s urban landscape – displacing residents and slicing through existing structures along its route, all while offering Lahoris the promise of ‘world-class’ public transportation. The volume collects stories from a series of walks along the metro’s 27-kilometre path, bringing together a wide variety of authors – including academics and activists, architects and artists – to reflect on the relationship between urban change and belonging in a historic city. Each chapter is organised around a particular station on the metro, but the volume moves far beyond the neighbourhoods shadowed by the train’s elevated track. Contributors navigate the friction generated by the Orange Line’s construction and reflect on how this project of connection both responds to and produces fragmentation in the urban environment. The book brings together critical insights on the politics of infrastructure in South Asia and the desires and dispossessions fuelling projects of development in the Global South, assessing how they unevenly inflect the intimate rhythms of everyday life in one of the world’s most populous cities.
| Type: | Book |
|---|---|
| Title: | Lahore in motion: infrastructure, history and belonging in urban Pakistan |
| ISBN-13: | 9781800087859 |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.14324/111.9781800087859 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.14324/111.9781800087859 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | Collection © Editors, 2025 Text © Contributors, 2025 Images © Contributors and copyright holders named in captions, 2025 Any third-party material in this book is not covered by the book’s Creative Commons licence. Details of the copyright ownership and permitted use of third-party material is given in the image (or extract) credit lines. Every effort has been made to identify and contact copyright holders and any omission or error will be corrected if notification is made to the publisher. If you would like to reuse any third-party material not covered by the book’s Creative Commons licence, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright owner. This book is published under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC 4.0), https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/. This licence allows you to share and adapt the work for non-commercial use providing attribution is made to the author and publisher (but not in any way that suggests that they endorse you or your use of the work) and any changes are indicated. Attribution should include the following information: Maqsood, A., Moffat, C. and Sajjad, F. (eds) 2025. Lahore in Motion: Infrastructure, history and belonging in urban Pakistan. London: UCL Press. https://doi.org/10.14324/111.9781800087859 Further details about Creative Commons licences are available at https://creativecommons.org/licenses/ |
| Keywords: | ( anthropology, development, geography, Pakistan, Lahore, public infrastructure |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of S&HS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of S&HS > Dept of Anthropology |
| URI: | https://discovery-pp.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10204390 |
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