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EFFECTS OF HIGH RISE APARTMENTS ON THE HOUSING SITUATION OF DHAKA CITY (Pages : 124 - 129)

At present as analyzed Dhaka Metropolitan City the capital of Bangladesh has turned into first slum rich mega city and less educated populous city of the world. The size of Dhaka city has grown from 2.07 square km in 1700 to about 1526 square km in 2008. The centurial trend of unplanned urbanization generated serious deterioration of the environmental habitat quality measured by traffic congestion, solid waste mismanagement, water logging, essential services, water, air and noise pollution. The high rate of population growth has created heavy pressure on housing and the land market. As a result, housing becomes a problem with indiscriminate proliferation of slums and squatters. It was found that high rise building development for residential use increased in the range of 3-10% of the real estate productions. The opportunity cost supposed to be paid in full amount by witnessing the next generations engulfed in socio psychological problems, for the trade off now a days made between poor housing environment and proximity to central business district work place by specially the affluent class of society. For serving that particular target group of people, it may be concluded that the overall city environment is degrading due to indiscriminate construction of high rise structures on the hydromorphic and made lands. It is recommended that a coherent and homogeneous urban environmental planning is necessary with effective measures to make a better and livable city of Dhaka.Download