Future of Kabul Indebted to Housing Policies
Authors:
Sultan Husein Hesari
Abstract:
There might be different visions, why Kabul has steady been devastated along the period. According to our classic literature, the main reason of cities demolished along the history has been predomination of corruption in those cities. If this assumption can be generalised for Kabul city, then the presence of many confusing factors deteriorate the situation much more.
Although architects are popular to elaborately connect the unknown realms, but contrary to philosophers have not the job to find out the roots of happenings. What architects and planners are responsible for is to rebuild the destructions, cure the injuries remained and make much more ingeniously decisions throughout the country.
In this paper, I will try to bring out the current status of the whole housing either influenced by direct devastation of war or having problems remained of pre-war, together with new requests for housing and trends to new lifestyles. Meanwhile, efforts have been made to find out an answer for the question of, what the demands of the people, in historical term, have been, concerning the housing and settlement in national level; and how it can be tackled. Moreover, the previous policies and the eventual impacts of tendencies to new approaches i.e. democratisation of policy-making and accommodation of it with the social trends and request have been analyzed.
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