Arif Hasan, is a Pakistan

Pakistan

Pakistan , officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan is a sovereign state in South Asia. It has a coastline along the Arabian Sea and the Gulf of Oman in the south and is bordered by Afghanistan and Iran in the west, India in the east and China in the far northeast. In the north, Tajikistan...

i architect

Architect

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, planner, teacher, social researcher, and writer

Writer

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. He is a recipient of Hilal-i-Imtiaz

Hilal-i-Imtiaz

The Hilal-i-Imtiaz, English: Crescent of Excellence, Urdu: هلال ا متيا ز , is the second highest civilian award and honor given to both civilians and military officers of the State of Pakistan|Pakistan armed forces by the Government of Pakistan...

, the country's highest award for its citizens.

Early Life and Education

Hasan studied architecture at Oxford Polytechnic (now Oxford Brookes University

Oxford Brookes University

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), UK

United Kingdom

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 from 1960 to 1965.

Activism

He has been involved with the Orangi Pilot Project

Orangi Pilot Project

The Orangi Pilot Project refers to a socially innovative project carried out in 1980s in the squatter areas of Orangi Town, Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan. It was initiated by Akhtar Hameed Khan, and involved the local residents solving their own sanitation problems...

 (OPP), Karachi since 1982. In 1989, he founded the Urban Resource Centre (URC) in Karachi of which he is the founder chairman.

Awards

• 1983: Best Building Award, Karachi Development Authority (KDA)
• 1990: International Year for the Shelterless Memorial Award, Japan
  Japan
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• 2000: Prince Claus Award
  Prince Claus Awards
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  : Urban Heroes, Netherlands
• 2001: Hilal-i-Imtiaz
  Hilal-i-Imtiaz
  The Hilal-i-Imtiaz, English: Crescent of Excellence, Urdu: هلال ا متيا ز , is the second highest civilian award and honor given to both civilians and military officers of the State of Pakistan|Pakistan armed forces by the Government of Pakistan...
  
  
• 2003: Life Time Achievement Award, Institute of Architects, Pakistan

Articles

• Resilience, Sustainability and Development:some as yet undefined issues Woodrow Wilson Conference on Community Resilience, 2008

Books

• Participatory Development, Karachi: Oxford University Press.
• The Unplanned Revolution, Karachi: Oxford University Press.
• Planning and Development Options for Karachi, Islamabad: Shehersaaz
• The Scale and Causes of Urban Change in Pakistan, Karachi: Ushba Publishing International
• Hasan, Arif and Mansoor Raza, Hijrat Aur Pakistan Mein Chotey Shehr (Urdu), Karachi: Ushba Publishing International
• Hasan, Arif, Asiya Sadiq Polak and Christophe Polak, The Hawkers of Saddar Bazaar, Karachi: Ushba Publishing International

External links

• Six new book by Arif Hasan and Colleagues Retrieved 29 January 2011.