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Sustainable Urban Landscape Planning: A Search for the Waterway Connection Possibilities around the Periphery of Dhaka City

Sayed Ahmed, Fahima Salam, Sefat Sultana

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Dhaka is dying for its lost connections of water bodies once that was its natural setting. As a result, it’s suffering from water logging in monsoon and lowering of ground water at a same time. Relationship and possibility between lost nature and existing contaminated environment by controlling the rapid urbanization is the expected the aim of this study. Sustainable urban landscape could be a possible solution. It is such thought, where responsible implementation of technology, materials and methods over any urban context is applied for minimal or less intervention against so called ‘human desire to design’. Obviously, the modus operandi is robustness that had been chosen instead of Tabula-Rasa. Considering various aspects like water and soil conservation, storm water recycling, plant health and even pest management along with socio-economic and environmental issues might construct this research into urban design. Findings will introduce micro level initiatives to acquire an ‘Eco-fabric’ over large-scale and zonal context of urban complexity. Eventually, some derived decision model will reveal imaginable implementations of new ideas and technologies to solve challenges. ‘Resilience’ is preferred as presented value to adjust sustainable urban site initiatives against environmental challenges

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.37628/.v2i1.500

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