Lahore in Motion: Infrastructure, History and Belonging in Urban Pakistan

Follow Lahore's Orange Line metro corridor to discover the tensions between development and displacement, progress and preservation, in one of the world's great metropolises.

Lahore is a city in constant flux, and the frictions that characterize urban life are vividly apparent along the tracks of its first metro rail corridor, opened in 2020. Lahore in Motion follows the Orange Line's 27-kilometer path, bringing together reflections from academics, activists, artists, and architects on the ways that infrastructure shapes urban belonging. The book offers a novel methodology for assessing how this mega-project has reconfigured neighborhoods, sparked new desires for modernity, and deepened existing social differences while destabilizing others.

Each chapter unfolds through the lens of a particular metro stop, providing intimate glimpses into the frictions generated by development where connectivity and fragmentation, aspiration and dispossession collide. Engaging with broader debates on urban transformation in the Global South, Lahore in Motion goes against familiar narratives of top-down development, revealing a city animated by resistance and reinventing itself in response. An eye-opening, beautifully written work for all interested in urbanism, infrastructure, politics, and the intimate rhythms of everyday life in one of the world's most dynamic cities.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1800087837
• ISBN13: 9781800087835
• Release Date: August 2025
• Publisher: UCL Press
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 1.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.4"