Fajle Rabbi Ashik, Sadia Alam Mim, Meher Nigar Neema
To ensure adequate access to urban facilities, it is important for urban planners to achieve equity in the geographical arrangement of such facilities. For the evaluation of vertical spatial equity in the geographical organization of urban facilities, there is a requirement to examine whether and to...
Md. Hamidur Rahman, Md Hedaetul Islam, Meher Nigar Neema
Compact development is broadly professed for making significant contributions to achieve sustainable growth of cities. Therefore, evaluation of the existing compactness of urban areas is crucial for guiding future urban development. Previous studies measured urban areas' compactness at a city or met...
S.M. Labib, Meher Nigar Neema, Md. Zahidur Rahaman, Shahadath Hossain Patwary et al.
CO2 emissions from urban traffic are a major concern in an era of increasing ecological disequilibrium. Adding to the problem net CO2 emissions in urban settings are worsened due to the decline of bio-productive areas in many cities. This decline exacerbates the lack of capacity to sequestrate CO2 a...
Meher Nigar Neema, Khandoker M. Maniruzzaman, Akira Ohgai
Mashrur Rahman, Meher Nigar Neema
The distribution of public facilities and their spatial equity is an important matter to be considered while planning public facilities. However, most of the studies in the literature have taken into consideration only a single type of facility while leaving other facilities unconsidered. In this pa...
Meher Nigar Neema, Jinat Jahan
With the surge of human population, the need for transportation of goods and people also concomitantly increases, resulting in urban air pollution through emission from motorized traffic especially in developing countries. The extent of environmental pollution in an urban setting is significantly in...
Niaz Mahmud Zafri, Md Nurullah, Meher Nigar Neema, Md Waliullah
Though equal and easy accessibility to healthcare facilities are a fundamental right, people of the coastal region often get poor accessibility to healthcare facilities. This research aimed to assess the spatial accessibility to healthcare facilities in the coastal region of Bangladesh. Patuakhali d...
Debasish Roy Raja, Meher Nigar Neema
Meher Nigar Neema, Khandoker M. Maniruzzaman, Akira Ohgai
In this paper, a model of green urbanism (GU) incorporating the concept of planting trees and greeneries has been proposed. The GU model attempts to address challenges encountered by dynamically changing cities around the globe due to the increasing events of urban greeneries transforming into built...
Antora Mohsena Haque, Md. Rifat Hossain, Md. Hasan Murshed Farhan, Meher Nigar Neema
Meher Nigar Neema
Bangladesh is confronted with a big challenge to mitigate the significant impact of climate change. Due to the climate change, Bangladesh has already experienced average maximum temperature rising, minimum temperature decreasing, rainfall, relative humidity and cloud coverage decreasing resulting fr...
Meher Nigar Neema, Khandoker M. Maniruzzaman, Akira Ohgai
Greenery is one of the important ingredients for urban planning with a sustainable environment. Increasing parks and open spaces (POS) to offer a greater diversity of green spaces have substantial impact on its environment in many mega cities around the world. However, any place cannot be a potentia...
Meher Nigar Neema, Khandoker M. Maniruzzaman, Akira Ohgai
In this paper, a model of green urbanism (GU) incorporating the concept of planting of trees and greeneries has been proposed. The GU model mainly attempts to address challenges encountered by dynamically changing cities around the globe due to the reduced number of urban greeneries transforming int...
Meher Nigar Neema, Khandoker M. Maniruzzaman, Akira Ohgai
Taslima Akter, Md. Mehedi Hasan, Akter Uz Zaman, Md. Rifat Hossain et al.