Dhaka’s Changing Landscape

The book narrates how opportunities and challenges of rapid urbanization in Dhaka are translated into realizing dreams of better lives and livelihoods, and prospects for a shared future for city dwellers - poor-non-poor, men-women, young-old, migrant-non-migrant. By defining the way in which cities should be planned and managed to best promote sustainable and equitable urbanization and integrating it with the national development agenda, this book has provided a road map that would create equal prospects for everyone to benefit from its prosperity. Foreword; Preface; Acknowledgements; List of Abreviations; List of Tables, figures, and boxes; Glossary; 1. Dhaka's Changing Landscape: Prospects for Economic Development, Social Change, and Shared Prosperity; 2. Rapid Urbanization and Population Changes in Dhaka City: The Demographic Dividend; 3. Migration and Rural-Urban Connectivity: The Need for Reconstructing New Theoretical Approaches; 4. Migration and Occupational Changes: Dreams and Relaities of Better Livelihoods; 5. Dynamics of Livelihoods, Income, and Proverty: The Scope for Shared Prosperity; 6. Quality of Life: Shared Modes of Basic Services and the Sustainable Development Goals; 7. Impact of Urbanization on Health and Education: Progress and Inter-generational Prospects for Shared Prosperity; 8. Migration, Modernization, and Social Change: An Enquiry into Migrants' Attitudinal Changes; 9. Better Lives, Better Incomes but Slip Prospects for Shared Prosperity; Bibliography; Appendices; Index; About the Authors