FARU - 2019

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    Influence of neighborhood street pattern focusing dead-end streets as social cohesion of neighborhood: delineating physical attributes of dead-end streets in Mohammadpur, Dhaka.
    (2019) Afroz, S; Talukder, R; Samarawickrama, S
    With the accelerating growth rate of rural-urban migration, Dhaka is teeming with dense urban formal and informal settlements. To aggravate the situation, numerous housing projects are sprouting without expert opinions and overlooking the need for open public place and proper connectivity. The changing nature of the physical characteristics of Dhaka City is caused by the prevalent urbanization process where open spaces and water bodies are being converted into built-up areas. The paucity of open spaces related to the very liveability of Dhaka threatens community, culture and social value of inhabitants, thus compelled them to look for new resolutions. The intention of this study is to contribute to how physical characteristics of dead-end streets adjacent to housing areas and inadvertent organic as well as inorganic patterns of the neighbourhood streets, particularly the dead-end shape the public space quality. The spatial analysis based on current gathering points of inhabitants in murky neighbourhood streets of Mohammadpur, Dhaka is carried out via Space syntax using depth map and behaviour mapping. The research is deeply concerned with the quality of life in these areas, from a perspective of sufferer, like the elderly and children. The findings will focus on (1) to analyse changing behaviour pattern at different dead-end street comparatively and also (2) to identify the major driving forces behind the changes in street connectivity applied in evaluating the street as a great public space.
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    Mental mapping of diversified urban interaction spaces at residential areas in Dhaka
    (2019) Islam, N; Afroz, S; Huq, FF; Samarawickrama, S
    The Community spaces fulfils “anthropological needs” of human beings. Dhaka is a living city with diverse lifestyle and people from all strata of society with different motivation. The city has different type of land use both planned and organic development which has grown from the need of dwellers. The primary human interaction space for the People living in planned residential areas are community parks and playfields. The organically developed areas of the city lack required number of parks, playfield yet found to be livelier and spontaneous in terms of human interactions and spatial relationships. The narrow alleyways, community kitchen and grocery shop become effective interaction space for the dweller, which has grown in terms of their need. This study attempts to compare the quality of the ‘interaction spaces’ of both planned residential areas and informal settlement area of Dhaka city by generating ‘Mental Map’ of the areas. The study uses Lynchian method in analysing city image and producing mental map of study areas. Geographical Information Systems (GIS) has been used as a tool for visualizing spatially oriented qualitative data to produce ‘Mental Map’ of the areas. The study bestows an idea about the differences between the users’ satisfaction from provided public spaces and spontaneously growing path-space community interaction spaces.