Growing up in Karachi, I’ve watched the city grow around me, When I was younger I would notice little things like new buildings, torn down places, new restaurants, uneven curbs, old dried out flowerbeds that occasionally would be run over by a car, sand swept from the sea, garbage lying around but as I grew old enough to see over buildings and appreciate the Karachi skyline, I couldn’t. I was unable to actually see past the advertisements which had been installed at every turn and corner. So now when I travel around parts of the city I usually see giant faces peering back at me, normally you would hope to see buildings, trees, actual faces or even the sunset but instead we are greeted with a myriad of advertisements. Imagine as you are driving …show more content…
Take the footpaths at Clifton for example; the sidewalks are vastly populated by Advertisments. As for the pedestrians well, they must find their way through them or just walk on the road. It’s safe to say that for the residents and pedestrians of Karachi the purpose of footpaths has been lost, that these are merely ‘raised platforms’ on sides of the road and should be deemed unfit for walking or standing purposes. The problem does not end at sidewalks or foot paths. According to NED University’s (Dept. of Architecture and Planning Chairperson) Prof Dr. Noman Ahmed, He talks about the effects of advertisement displays on flyovers across the city. “There are already plenty of structural flaws in the city’s flyovers. In this scenario any kind of drilling on the horizontal structure of the bridges is not at all desirable,” he said adding that this kind of dangerous drilling could cause the collapse of said any overhead