Word: akhter
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Other new members are Reza Akhter '95, JoshuaA. Feltman '95, David A. Miller '95, ChristopherRickerd '95, Sanford Weisburst '95, Mu Zhu '95,Ruvin Y. Breydo '95, Benjamin F. Denckla '95,Dominic M. Dousa '95, Marcel F. Gemperli '95, MinhL. Nguyen '95 and Jeffrey...
...awakening of self-reliance in the urban poor is a global phenomenon. In Karachi, architect Akhter Hameed Khan rallied the people of the Orangi district around a self-help initiative to upgrade their sanitation. With 800,000 residents from five of Pakistan's major ethnic groups, the neighborhood is periodically racked by violence. Still, working lane by lane, beginning in 1980, Hameed Khan and his co-workers in the Orangi Pilot Project proved to the district that with a tiny investment ($40 a house), it could install its own sewerage system. Since then, roughly 70% of the 6,347 lanes...
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