ICCPP - 2014

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    Learning from precedents: emerging urban planning practices towards livable communities in Dhaka
    (Department of Architecture University of Moratuwa, 2014) Fatemi, N; Islam, N; Dayaratne, R; Wijesundara, J
    The objective of this paper is to reveal the shift of thoughts in city planning in terms of livability demonstrated in one of the newly planned satellite towns of Dhaka city. Ever since the emergence of the term 'livable cities' back in 1980’s by IMCL (International Making Cities Livable LLC), considerable amount of research and practice have been oriented towards understanding how the contemporary cities should grow or be planned for livability, in terms of physical, socio-economic and cultural aspects. Cities around the globe demonstrate diversified vision, policies and strategies for achieving these desired goals. This paper takes Dhaka city as a case study to critically investigate the intentions and attempts of urban planning and design practice focused on the livability aspects of the city. The human settlement of Dhaka city can be traced back as early as the 12th century. Till then, the city received attention, negligence, natural calamity, political instability and went through a number of philosophical views as well as planning proposals for its development. In all its efforts, the intrinsic components of livability were much less emphasized due to the major thrust on city’s physical constraint, limited land resources along with negligence in detail area and neighborhood planning. But recent efforts in one of the newly planned satellite town Purbachal shows evidence of change in the traditional paradigm of planning practice. The ultimate objective of this paper is to reveal the points where the proposed master plan of Purbachal succeeded or failed to embrace the principals of livability learnt from earlier precedence of greater Dhaka city. The findings of this paper have been extracted from the studio exercise of Urban Design Studio of the Department of Architecture, University of Asia Pacific. The study was mainly based on case study, examining documented evidence and map & model study along with expert interview.
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    Urban green space in a high-density city: user expectations, accessibility and experience in context of Dhaka
    (Department of Architecture University of Moratuwa, 2014) Fatemi, N; Dayaratne, R; Wijesundara, J
    This paper starts from the debate with 'the problem of the simplistic notion that more green spaces are required when density is increased is that it does not consider the characteristics of people living in higher density environments'. In Dhaka, a critical imbalance has been observed between users' need and aspiration of the urban green space use and the available quantity they benefit from. The City possesses only 0.12 acres greeneries and open areas per thousand population, while it needs to devote a range between 6.25 and 10.5 acres of total open space per thousand population, according to NRPA (National Recreation and Park Association recommendation). With the phenomenal rise in the level of urbanization and urban growth, the City suffers the loss of its precious open space for urban infill. And the gap between the amount of open space required for a healthy living and the amount of open space available continues to widen. As the City is densely developed, it leaves little scope to have more open spaces inside. Consequently, concentration should be paid in retaining, up keeping and exploiting the potentials of existing urban open spaces, greeneries, and lakesides and improve their quality for urban life. This paper analyzes the urban green space use and their potentials by a correlational study between DHANMONDI Lake & Lakeside Green Spaces and HATIRJHEEL & Lakeside Green Spaces. And a number of observations, interviews and informal questionnaire survey on the users has been conducted to study the user accessibility, their expectations and the manifestations of these user-perceptions in the day-to-day use.