December 14, 2011 | 11:00 AM | By

Drawing Parallels Between Shaw and Karachi

What do Karachi, Pakistan and D.C. have in common? NPR’s Steve Inskeep, author of “Instant City: Life and Death in Karachi,” writes that his gentrifying Shaw neighborhood and Karachi are both places struggling to “manage diversity.”


Some of my passion for the place grows out of the city where I live, and from which I began each of my journeys abroad. Karachi seems nothing like my neighborhood in Washington, D.C., yet I discovered that each place is a commentary on the other. Both showcase a universal theme of urban life: our struggle to deal with neighbors who are different from us.

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  • Anonymous

    Steve Inskeep loves diversity so much that he rallied hard to get businesses shut down. Google him and you’ll see many complaints he made to gentrify the neighborhood. Check out his fight agains Pure Nightclub & Lounge and other places.  Talk is cheap but when you’re not a good neighbor, don’t think you can hide behind your liberal credentials in a hip neighborhood.