Bastee settlements of Dhaka City, Bangladesh : a review of policy approaches and challenges ahead

Bastee settlements of Dhaka City, Bangladesh : a review of policy approaches and challenges ahead

Dhaka, capital city of Bangladesh, with a population of 12 million, receives 300,000 to 400,000 rural migrants annually. During the last three decades, while city population has grown over 7%, annually, bastee (slum and squatter) population of the city has grown from 1.0 million in 1990 to 3.4 mil...

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Main Author: Mohit, Mohammad Abdul
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier B.V. 2012
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NA9000 Aesthetics of cities. City planning and beautifying
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spelling iium-276662014-08-14T02:03:34Z http://irep.iium.edu.my/27666/ Bastee settlements of Dhaka City, Bangladesh : a review of policy approaches and challenges ahead Mohit, Mohammad Abdul NA9000 Aesthetics of cities. City planning and beautifying Dhaka, capital city of Bangladesh, with a population of 12 million, receives 300,000 to 400,000 rural migrants annually. During the last three decades, while city population has grown over 7%, annually, bastee (slum and squatter) population of the city has grown from 1.0 million in 1990 to 3.4 million in 2005. Several policy approaches such as eviction, resettlement and upgrading, were adopted to deal with bastee settlements of Dhaka since 1975. These policies approaches were not very effective, because the scale of the problem is very large, which provides future challenges to deal with the bastee situation at a city-wide scale. Elsevier B.V. 2012 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/27666/1/Bastee_settlement_of_Dhaka.pdf Mohit, Mohammad Abdul (2012) Bastee settlements of Dhaka City, Bangladesh : a review of policy approaches and challenges ahead. Procedia Social and Behavioral Sciences, 36. pp. 611-622. ISSN 1877-0428 http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/18770428 10.1016/j.sbspro.2012.03.067
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Mohit, Mohammad Abdul
Bastee settlements of Dhaka City, Bangladesh : a review of policy approaches and challenges ahead
description Dhaka, capital city of Bangladesh, with a population of 12 million, receives 300,000 to 400,000 rural migrants annually. During the last three decades, while city population has grown over 7%, annually, bastee (slum and squatter) population of the city has grown from 1.0 million in 1990 to 3.4 million in 2005. Several policy approaches such as eviction, resettlement and upgrading, were adopted to deal with bastee settlements of Dhaka since 1975. These policies approaches were not very effective, because the scale of the problem is very large, which provides future challenges to deal with the bastee situation at a city-wide scale.
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author Mohit, Mohammad Abdul
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title Bastee settlements of Dhaka City, Bangladesh : a review of policy approaches and challenges ahead
title_short Bastee settlements of Dhaka City, Bangladesh : a review of policy approaches and challenges ahead
title_full Bastee settlements of Dhaka City, Bangladesh : a review of policy approaches and challenges ahead
title_fullStr Bastee settlements of Dhaka City, Bangladesh : a review of policy approaches and challenges ahead
title_full_unstemmed Bastee settlements of Dhaka City, Bangladesh : a review of policy approaches and challenges ahead
title_sort bastee settlements of dhaka city, bangladesh : a review of policy approaches and challenges ahead
publisher Elsevier B.V.
publishDate 2012
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