Indexing and abstracting services
Abstract: Using the Urdu word maqamiat in relation to the built form, a research methodology is developed in this paper which helps understand and analyse maqamiat of built form. Maqamiat, which translates as localness, helps assess what it means for a city to be local in the context of Karachi, specifically, having particular variables impacting the built form, but dealing with similar issues of identity crises as other formally colonized nations. The aim of this paper is to analyse the various physical components and the decision making processes that go into the making of an urban context, in order to be able to investigate the scale at which maqamiat can be identified in the built form. This paper highlights indicators of localness and weaves them together into an evaluative framework for understanding maqamiat in the context of Karachi. This framework ties in the decision making processes related to the built form to indicators of localness and various scales at which localness can be identified.
Author : Suneela Ahmed
Keywords: Maqamiat; Built form; Urban morphology; Design qualities; Karachi
Abstract: Quality of water may differ according to the geography of the region, due to that the quality of water is big concern worldwide, because majority of disease caused by the poor quality of drinking water. Subsequently realizing the significance of drinking water quality with in the central part of the Sindh province, this research work was carried out to assess the drinking water quality within the Nawabshah city, where the single source of supply water is the Gajrawah after the conventional treatment through the open ponds. In this study seven physicochemical parameter were investigated and laboratorial investigations demonstrated that the pH values were found with the WHO limits, TDS & EC values were found within the acceptable limits, except in one residential area, Turbidity was also high at all the locations only one area (Marium road colony) was found within the standards, furthermore, the hardness was present in all the samples at all the locations, which indicate that the water supplied to public was hard in nature. In addition to that Temperature and Dissolved Oxygen were found safe and within the limits and it was concluded that the water supplied to residents of the inspected areas were found not fit for drinking and it is suggested that the water supply, should be improved and essential steps should be taken to treat the water.
Author 1: Sajjad Ali Mangi
Author 2: Samiullah Sohu
Author 3: Faheem Ahmed Soomro
Author 4: Abd Halid Abdullah
Author 5: Sasitharan Nagapan
Keywords: Water Quality; Public Health; Gajrawah: Physicochemical; Nawabshah
