The government is weighing potential revisions to the Detailed Area Plan (DAP), a blueprint meant to guide Dhaka’s development, just two years after its approval, raising serious concerns among urban planners.
Housing developers' interests are getting in the way of making Dhaka a liveable city
There’s no way to call this a “people’s DAP.” It does mention some goals, but without sketching out a plan to achieve them.
Could the DAP be nothing but a visionless ideal?
DAP depicts a vision, but whose vision that is and how it came to be are not clear.
The regulations that DAP recommends can initiate a spree of development in the floodplains and agricultural lands surrounding central Dhaka, posing a serious threat of urban flooding.
Can the new Detailed Area Plan cure Dhaka's ills?
Only if Rajuk has the will and organisational capacity
They long for a city free from sound and air pollutions. They desire a city with footpaths suitable for walking and playgrounds near their doorsteps. They also want to preserve the ecosystem.
A moderate rain for a couple of hours and much of the capital goes under ankle to knee-deep water. Why?
