Bastee (slum and squatter) 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 last three decades, city population has grown over 7%, annually. Bastee population of city has grown from 1.0 million in 1990 to 3.4 million in 2005. Several policy approa...

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Main Author: Mohit, Mohammad Abdul
Format: Proceeding Paper
Language:English
Published: 2011
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Online Access:http://irep.iium.edu.my/1102/1/Bastee_%28Slum_and_Squatter%29_Settlements_of_Dhaka_City%2C_Bangladesh-_A_Review_of_Policy_Approaches_and_Challenges_Ahead.pdf
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description Dhaka, capital city of Bangladesh, with a population of 12 million, receives 300,000 to 400,000 rural migrants annually. During last three decades, city population has grown over 7%, annually. Bastee population of 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.
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spelling oai:generic.eprints.org:11022012-10-22T06:37:46Z http://irep.iium.edu.my/1102/ Bastee (slum and squatter) settlements of Dhaka City, Bangladesh: a review of policy approaches and challenges ahead Mohit, Mohammad Abdul NA Architecture Dhaka, capital city of Bangladesh, with a population of 12 million, receives 300,000 to 400,000 rural migrants annually. During last three decades, city population has grown over 7%, annually. Bastee population of 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. 2011-06 Proceeding Paper PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/1102/1/Bastee_%28Slum_and_Squatter%29_Settlements_of_Dhaka_City%2C_Bangladesh-_A_Review_of_Policy_Approaches_and_Challenges_Ahead.pdf Mohit, Mohammad Abdul (2011) Bastee (slum and squatter) settlements of Dhaka City, Bangladesh: a review of policy approaches and challenges ahead. In: AcE-Bs 2011 Bandung, 15-17 June , Bandung, Indonesia. http://fspu.uitm.edu.my/cebs/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=203&Itemid=166
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Bastee (slum and squatter) settlements of Dhaka City, Bangladesh: a review of policy approaches and challenges ahead
title Bastee (slum and squatter) settlements of Dhaka City, Bangladesh: a review of policy approaches and challenges ahead
title_full Bastee (slum and squatter) settlements of Dhaka City, Bangladesh: a review of policy approaches and challenges ahead
title_fullStr Bastee (slum and squatter) settlements of Dhaka City, Bangladesh: a review of policy approaches and challenges ahead
title_full_unstemmed Bastee (slum and squatter) settlements of Dhaka City, Bangladesh: a review of policy approaches and challenges ahead
title_short Bastee (slum and squatter) settlements of Dhaka City, Bangladesh: a review of policy approaches and challenges ahead
title_sort bastee slum and squatter settlements of dhaka city bangladesh a review of policy approaches and challenges ahead
topic NA Architecture
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