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What kind of city do we really want? (opens the original)
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Every year, nearly half a million people move to Dhaka, a population equivalent to an entire city like Cumilla or Mymensingh. As that pressure mounts, how much longer can Dhaka keep absorbing it? In this Slow Reads' podcast, "What kind of city do we really want?", urban experts Kazi Khalid Ashraf and Adnan Zillur Morshed argue that the solution to Dhaka's crisis lies not within the capital, but beyond it. Kazi Khaleed Ashraf is an architect and urbanist, and director-general of Bengal Institute
What would make Dhaka a good city? (opens the original)
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There we go again – the shaming of Dhaka as 171st, the third worst, in the liveability index of 173 cities around the world. And then follows the usual: a general indignation at being ranked below bombarded Kyiv and sectarian Karachi; scepticism about Euro-American measures of our lives; immediate newspaper editorials and op-eds citing what went wrong; and subsequent write-ups such as, perhaps, the one you are reading now. Meanwhile, planners and policymakers, the city corporations and the unnay
Bonolata Sen's Natore: A topographic reading (opens the original)
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Bogura Road is a long, winding road that weaves through Barishal City from the west to the east, eventually leading to the Kirtonkhola River. Where Gorosthan Road splits at a sharp angle from Bogura Road was once the family home of Bengal's most reputed recluse and poet, Jibanananda Das. Much of the city has changed since the poet left town permanently in 1946 during the anxious time of Partition. The original house was taken over and mauled beyond recognition, and now a pathetic building claims
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