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

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

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Abstract

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.

Item Type:	Article (Journal)
Additional Information:	3631/27666
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Bastee ; city population ; Dhaka ; migration ; policy approaches
Subjects:	N Fine Arts > NA Architecture > NA9000 Aesthetics of cities. City planning and beautifying
Kulliyyahs/Centres/Divisions/Institutes (Can select more than one option. Press CONTROL button):	Kulliyyah of Architecture and Environmental Design > Department of Urban & Regional Planning
Depositing User:	Dr Mohammad Abdul Mohit
Date Deposited:	19 Dec 2012 14:15
Last Modified:	14 Aug 2014 10:03
URI:	http://irep.iium.edu.my/id/eprint/27666

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