Huraera Jabeen, Cassidy Johnson, Adriana Allen
Significant lessons can be drawn from grassroots experiences of coping with extreme weather for reducing the vulnerability of the urban poor to climate change. This paper examines the household and community coping strategies used by low-income households living in Korail, the largest informal settl...
Huraera Jabeen
Climate resilience varies significantly based on gender and on location in different physical and social spaces. A qualitative study exploring conditions of the urban poor in Khulna, Bangladesh demonstrates how the appropriation of private, parochial and public spaces by residents of informal settle...
Huraera Jabeen, Simon Guy
Huraera Jabeen, Cassidy Johnson
Huraera Jabeen, Khondaker Hasibul Kabir, Tasfin Aziz
The global discourse around architecture education emphasizes rethinking curricula for engaging more with social issues. The shift from creating star architects to socially responsive professionals necessitates examining different approaches to build skills, especially in the design studio, for enco...
Huraera Jabeen
Informal settlements in Dhaka, like many other contexts of the Global South, develop through asset-accumulation. Households heavily invest in housing when they first arrive at the settlement and accumulate other types of capital, both for production and consumption purposes. Across time, education a...
Cassidy Johnson, Adriana Allen, Huraera Jabeen
Huraera Jabeen
Climate change is posing significant risks to urban poor groups in cities as the impacts exacerbate existing physical, financial and social vulnerabilities. Despite similar exposure to climate variables within a city or a household, the adaptive capacity of poor households and individuals within the...
Jahid Nur, Huraera Jabeen
During COVID-19, female informal workers living in urban informal settlements in Bangladesh have faced greater challenges in re-entering the labour market than their male counterparts. This paper presents the findings of a qualitative study, which has explored how the pre-existing socio-economic con...
Tasfin Aziz, Huraera Jabeen
Accessibility of Hatiya, one of the most disaster-prone islands in Bangladesh, has many layers of challenges. Institutional arrangements guide the availability and quality of transports while islanders make travel decisions based on the geophysical character of the estuary and weather. These factors...
Huraera Jabeen
Cassidy Johnson, Adriana Allen, Huraera Jabeen
Huraera Jabeen
Urban development and planning, at present, demand an approach that both provides an account of the forces leading to change in the qualities of places in urban regions and offers ideas about the forms and processes of governance. People’s participation is seen as one of the main element of ensuring...
Huraera Jabeen
We live in a world that is full of contradictions, of multiple positionalties, and of highly contested meanings and aspirations. Trying to position oneself in this complex world requires an understanding of the power, constraints, possibilities and strategies to perform. From the 1990’s the movement...