FROM BOTTLENECK TO NETWORK: AURANGZEB BADINI’S PLACE-BASED URBAN TRANSFORMATION OF PISHIN, BALOCHISTAN

Abstract

This study investigates the influence of intellectual capital (IC) on the It has been decades since Pishin’s wider urban form pushed people and freight through a narrow spine. However, this is no longer the case. Through the efforts of Ex-Deputy Commissioner Pishin, Aurangzeb Badini, a joint program was launched on-site from June 2018 to November 2019. It was done to address this challenge by joining serviced urban land and phasing out outdated systems and formalizing documented governance. Furthermore, it was based on two schemes. First Scheme A, named Model Town Pishin, covers 2,200 acres of Batizai Land, including a 200-acre Government Offices Complex. It will combine district administration, the judiciary, and civic facilities with a model neighborhood and market point built around the main. Contrary to this, Scheme B is based on public-private arrangement. It covers the 487 acres of military land along with 3.2 km ring road. Apart from this, it also gave an intermodal terminal (400 bays), truck yard, market sheds, city-center upgrades, structured parking and water saving governance mechanism that can help in reducing dependence on agricultural use of remaining parcels by promoting tunnel farming. At the same time, a value-laden Yaro-Pishin connector to link with national highway was cleared by plantation pledge based on more than 5,000 tress and then delivered with a price to address the problem of stranding node. Thus, method has emphasized audits in line with environment, remote sensing, an index of living standards, tracing of process and transactions. At last, the finding suggests reduced crash risk and queues, commerce’s formalization, efficiency of administrative gains, investment in peri-urban spaces, nevertheless, consistent with accessibility theory and capability expansion. (Hansen 1959; Sen 1999.)