'The law is just background noise': the politics of land governance in urban Pakistan

Aisha’s project pertains to the acquisition of peri-urban land for the construction of luxury private housing schemes in Lahore, Pakistan. She is interested in the legal and regulatory infrastructure surrounding land use in the city. In a complicated and messy legal landscape where jurisdictions, laws and rules are many and overlapping, Aisha is specifically interested in how and why legal contradictions and clashes are resolved to pave the way for the continued conversion of arable peri-urban land into real estate.  

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