The Consortium for Development Policy Research (CDPR) and the International Growth Centre (IGC) hosted a roundtable session of the second Lahore Policy Exchange on “Lahore Futures: A Normative Lahore?”. The session was held on the 21st October at CDPR,  Lahore.

The first session of Lahore Futures explored the inequality of development in Lahore and how this inequality manifests itself in town planning, architecture, and the environmental impacts of urban development. It served as a scoping session to identify other aspects of Lahore’s future.

Watch it here: Lahore Futures Session 1

The second session of the Lahore Futures policy exchange series aimed towards identifying the tenets of an ideal city of Lahore focusing on aspects of city financing, public transport and air quality. The goal was to pinpoint challenges and to take actionable solutions to tackle these problems in a sustainable and productive manner with the goal to build a normative city.

The roundtable discussion featured the following speakers:

Ijaz Nabi (Executive Director, CDPR, Country Director, IGC Pakistan)
Ahmad Rafay Alam (Environmental Lawyer)
Farah Said (Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, LUMS)
Mohammad Omar Masud (CEO, Urban Unit)
Kamil Khan Mumtaz (Architect)
Omar Hassan (Dean, Razia Hassan School of Architecture at BNU)
Qudsia Rahim (Co- Founder and Executive Director, Lahore Biennale Foundation)
Raza Ali Dada (Managing Partner, Architect, Nayyar Ali Dada & Associates)

Watch Session 2: