Mohammad Anisur Rahaman, Abul Kalam, Md. Al‐Mamun
Background: Dhaka City, the capital of Bangladesh, has experienced rapid and unplanned urbanization over the past few decades. This process has brought significant challenges to public health as the urban environment has become a breeding ground for various health risks. Understanding the associatio...
Simin Davoudi, Jenny Crawford, Ruth Raynor, Bryonie Reid et al.
This Policy and Practice (P&P) originated from the round table discussion held in the UK and Ireland Planning Research Conference at Queens University Belfast from 11 to 13 September 2017. Its aim is to explore the representational and performative role of spatial imaginaries in both describing iden...
Nicola Banks, Manoj Roy, David Hulme
In Bangladesh, urban poverty is neglected in research, policy and action on poverty reduction. This paper explores the underlying reasons for this relative neglect, which include national identity and image, the political economy of urban poverty and the structuring of knowledge creation. It argues ...
A. Graham Tipple
Many countries have large stocks of government-built housing which, for various reasons, are in poor physical conditions and/or do not conform to the expectations of occupants. The occupants of such housing frequently make unauthorised but quite considerable changes and extensions (transformations) ...
Neil Webster, Lars Engberg‐Pedersen
* 1. Introduction to Political Space - Neil Webster and Lars Engberg-Pedersen * 2. Reading the Bolivian Landscape of Exclusion and Inclusion: The Law of Popular Participation - Anne Marie Ejdesgaard Jeppesen * 3. The Vicissitudes of Politics and the Resilience of the Peasantry: The Contestation and ...
Iftekhar Iqbal
With a focus on colonial Bengal, this book demonstrates how the dynamics of agrarian prosperity or decline, communal conflicts, poverty and famine can only be properly understood from an ecological pe
Shelley Feldman
While nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) are recognized for the important role they play in development planning, particularly as sites for democratic change, little attention is given to how they prefigure the economic and social reorganization of everyday life and provide a venue for privatizati...
Lawrence J. Vale
The first edition of Architecture, Power, and National Identity, published in 1992, has become a classic, winning the prestigious Spiro Kostof award for the best book in architecture and urbanism. Lawrence Vale fully has fully updated the book, which focuses on the relationship between the design of...
Nasir Uddin
This paper examines the sustainability of urban development through the livelihood conditions of slum dwellers in Bangladesh. The empirical data were collected through interview schedule and FGD from 97 respondents in two slum areas of Bangladesh. The respondents were selected purposively from the s...
Michal Lyons
Prelims (Foreword, Nabeel Hamdi) Introduction Michal Lyons, Theo Schilderman and Graham Saunders Part I: Setting the Scene 1. Putting people at the centre of reconstruction Theo Schilderman 2. Can large-scale participation be peoplecentred? Evaluating reconstruction as development Michal Lyons 3. Th...
Md. Saiful Islam, Md. Galib Ishraq Emran, Md. Estiar Rahman, Rajon Banik et al.
BACKGROUND: The emergent COVID-19 has impacted unprecedentedly to all classes of people. Slum-dwellers' knowledge, attitudes and practices (KAP) toward COVID-19 are currently poorly understood. The present study aimed to investigate the KAP toward COVID-19 among slum dwellers resided in Dhaka City, ...
Graham Tipple
Abstract Many countries have large stocks of government-built housing which, for various reasons, are in poor physical conditions and/or do not conform to the expectations of occupants, who frequently make unauthorised but quite considerable changes and extensions (transformations) to their dwelling...
Contents: 1. Introduction: Toward the Comparative Study of Urban Governance Richard E. Stern2. Confronting Critical Disjunctures in the Governance of Cities Patricia L. McCarney3. Ethnographies of Governance: Urban Spaces and Actors in the Middle East Seteney Shami4. Bellavista: Local Political Acti...
Iftekhar Ahmed
This paper examines the hazards that affect slum communities in Dhaka, Bangladesh, and explores the challenges and opportunities for building their resilience. Dhaka is a rapidly urbanising megacity in one of the world's most densely populated and poorest countries. Almost 30% of its more than 14 mi...
François Bousquet, Aurélie Botta, Luca Alinovi, Olivier Barreteau et al.
Bousquet, F., A. Botta, L. Alinovi, O. Barreteau, D. Bossio, K. Brown, P. Caron, P. Cury, M. D'Errico, F. DeClerck, H. Dessard, E. Enfors Kautsky, C. Fabricius, C. Folke, L. Fortmann, B. Hubert, D. Magda, R. Mathevet, R. B. Norgaard, A. Quinlan, and C. Staver. 2016. Resilience and development: mobil...