Evolution of Town Planning in Pakistan: With a Specific Reference to Punjab Province (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781543449020)

Dr. Anis ur Rahmaan is an engineer, architect, and urban and regional planner. He has studied and taught in ten institutions of higher learning in the USA, UK, Netherlands, Saudi Arabia, and Pakistan. He prepared the first Master Plan for Greater Lahore - the second largest city of Pakistan - in the 1960s, which has not only been catalogued in the Library of Congress but also in the libraries of the major USA's universities. He worked for a number of years as Director of Town Planning of the Punjab and North Western Frontier Provinces in Pakistan. He was awarded International Development Fellowship by the East-West Center, University of Hawaii in 1967; and later conferred the Best Professor's Award by the King Abdul Aziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. He has also worked as United Nations Advisor for Urban and Regional Planning for about ten years in Saudi Arabia and as a UN Consultant in the United Arab Emirates and Pakistan. In 1999 his name appeared in Who's Who in the World. Currently he is engaged in community development and poverty alleviation through education and vocational training programs on philanthropic basis in Pakistan, Dr. Rahmaan has already published two books: (i) Anjuman-e-Arzu in Urdu language for the people at large and (ii) The Imperatives of Urban and Regional Planning: Concepts and Case Studies from the Developing World for the academicians, practitioners and students of urban and regional planning. Anjuman-e-Arzu has already been translated in English language under the title of "A Galaxy of Desires". All the three books are available on Amazon.com. Dr. Rahmaan has also contributed a number of articles in leading literary and professional journals and chapters in edited books. His e-mail addresses are: (i) arahmaan@hotmail.com; and (ii) anis.urrahmaan@gmail.com.