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Minute Mirror · 2025
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Pocket parks offer a scalable, evidence-backed solution to Pakistan's urban heat crisis — a low-cost intervention with high human and economic returns.
As Pakistan’s cities face extreme heat stress, small-scale urban green interventions — pocket parks — offer a cost-effective, high-impact tool for urban cooling, mental health, and community resilience. This piece makes the evidence-based case for greening urban policy.
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Dr. Ghulam Mohey-ud-din
Senior Economic Planner, Parsons Corporation · RCJY, Saudi Arabia
PhD Economics · 18+ years · 20+ peer-reviewed publications · $60M+ programmes advised
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Newspaper Column
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Minute Mirror
Year
2025
Date
23 September 2025
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