Islamabad and the Politics of International Development in Pakistan

This is a highly original account of the design and development of Pakistan''s capital city; one of the most iconic and ambitious urban reconstruction projects of the twentieth century. Balancing archival research with fresh, theoretical insights, Markus Daechsel surveys the successes and failures of Greek urbanist Constantinos A. Doxiadis''s most ambitious endeavour, Islamabad, analysing how the ...