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- Title
Fading Legacy of the Architectural Heritage of the Historic Core of Karachi.
- Authors
Soomro, Tania Ali; Soomro, Mohsin Ali; Laghari, Abdul Nasir; Bangwar, Daddan K.; Soomro, Mukhtiar Ali
- Abstract
In 1839 British East India Company captured the town of Karachi. After an effortless resistance from the locals the fort was conquered by the British commander sir Charles Napier. The village of Kolachi then was annexed to British India and the city was labeled as Karachi. With the British occupation a phase of new sophisticated architecture and development started. Before that the city was based upon the vernacular mud architecture. These developments resulted in an influx of economic migrants who helped in making Karachi as a multinational and a multicultural city. This paper investigates the architectural attributes that the historic core of the city offers. It also discusses the side by side development of the native and British towns. The paper also researches about the existing state of the architecture precedent of the British colonial past of the city and the urban blight occurred to them over time in various forms like vandalism, encroachments, illegal repairs, etc.
- Subjects
ARCHITECTURAL design; NAPIER, Charles, Sir, 1786-1860; KARACHI (Book); EAST India Co.; ENCROACHMENTS (Real property)
- Publication
Engineering, Technology & Applied Science Research, 2018, Vol 8, Issue 2, p2735
- ISSN
2241-4487
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.48084/etasr.1779