Research & Published Work
© Sarah N. Ahmad
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An Urban Atlas of Care - Toronto, Volume One
An Urban Atlas of Care: Toronto, Volume One is the first public field volume from The Caring Urbanist — 21 real, operating sites across the city, assessed against the seven dimensions of the Urban Diagnostics of Care™ framework.
The Caring Urbanist / Sarah N. Ahmad
2026 -
Urban Diagnostics of Care
Seven dimensions for reading care in the city
By Sarah N. Ahmad / The Caring Urbanist
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Holding The City Gently: Trauma-informed Urbanism in a City of Arrival
An Anthology - Traumed-Informed Practice: Care in Global Contexts
Chapter 5, Collective Healing: Community, Resilience and Rebirth
published by Global Arts in Medicine
2026 -
Op-Ed: Smoggy Governance
Published in The Nation
2024 -
Cycling Strategy Islamabad
Prepared by Urban Innovation Pvt. Ltd. in partnership with Graana, Urban Platform and Islamabad Cycling Association
2020 -
Op-Ed: Naya Pakistan Housing Authority
Published in The Nation
2018 -
Collaborative Planning, Governance and Resistance: Institutional Provision in Lahore
Pakistan Journal of Urban Affairs
2017 -
The Deliberative Urban
Collaborative Planning and the Search for Transformative Urban Governance in Lahore
Development Planning Unit, University College London, 2012 -
Big City Wishes, Demolished Dreams: A Housing Story from Lahore
A Lahore laborer's decades-long search for a home reveals how sprawl, informal settlements, and arbitrary urban planning shape — and repeatedly unravel — housing security for the city's working poor.
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Op-Ed: The Orange Line That Divides
Published in The Nation
2015 -
Op-Ed: Displacing Hope
Published in The News International, Pakistan
2014 -
The Space Between
co-authored
Published by openDemocracy
2011
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