What sort of 'development' has no place for a billion slum dwellers?
- Written by Tanzil Shafique, PhD Researcher in Urban Design, University of Melbourne
The Bangladesh government wants Karail, an established community of 200,000 people in the capital Dhaka, to make way for development.Laura Elizabeth Pohl/Bread for the World/flickr, CC BY-NC-ND
Imagine a community of 200,000. Convivial, walkable, six times the density of Manhattan but with a smaller ecological footprint. It provides low-cost...
Read more: What sort of 'development' has no place for a billion slum dwellers?