We use and hear these phrases on a daily basis and they are far more than enough in defining the condition of spatial design practice in Pakistan, where cities pause and suffer daily from plenty of issues, with no or tokenistic concept of urban consultation and in-depth urban analysis on development projects, and where the masses are not involved in and are the last ones to know about the development, most often when the project gets initiated. Where the approach to urban interventions has been so static that the lags are easily predictable. That, we can pinpoint what would not have been taken into consideration, if or when we hear a project announcement.

We only see developments that we don’t need, and why is that? Are we talking about these issues enough? Are we talking about them in spaces that can bring impact? Or are we talking about them to actually change something? Or we’ll just talk about them again and again for the sake of discussion and conclude it with, “bus je Pakistan hai, yahan aisay he hota hai”.