Bastee 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 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 mil...
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Elsevier B.V.
2012
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| Online Access: | http://irep.iium.edu.my/27666/1/Bastee_settlement_of_Dhaka.pdf http://irep.iium.edu.my/27666/ http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/18770428 |
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| Summary: | 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. |
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