Qazi Mowla
Dr Qazi Azizul Mowla is the Vice-Chancellor, Leading University and a Professor and former Head, Department of Architecture, Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET), Dhaka and is currently officiating as the Director, Urban Design and Landscape Division. He was a Visiting Professor in the Department of Environmental Design, Kyushu University, Fukuoka Japan and Katholic University, Leuven, Belgium. Also Visiting Professor in HSTU-Dinajpur; CUET-Chittagong; JU-Dhaka; Stamford U-Dhaka, State U-Dhaka; Sonargaon U-Dhaka; Primeasia U-Dhaka and SouthEast University-Dhaka. He is a Scholar of ICCR-India; ADB-JSPS- HongKong and Commonwealth-UK.
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Department of Environmental Design, Kyushu University, Japan
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Department of Architecture, Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology. Dhaka-1000, BANGLADESH
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Cities are now experiencing a number of sustainability challenges in the context of climate change. To reduce the vulnerable impacts of climate change, it is now important to identify a climate-change adaptation strategy that would reduce the hazard risk in the cities from climate change-induced flooding, temperature rise, sea-level rise, landslides, and earthquakes. In an urban area, open spaces have the potential in building the functional capacity of urban structures. Based on their multifunctional capability, there are different types of open spaces used for different functions including spaces for recreation and relaxation, for agriculture and gardening, for ventilation and cooling, for water absorption and groundwater formation as well as for stationary or moving traffic and for public gathering. Literature shows that open space networking in an urban area has the potential to create a cost-effective climate-change adaptation/resilience strategy. This paper attempts to identify the cities vulnerability due to climate change-induced hazards and also to identify types and patterns of distribution of open spaces that would be responsive/resilient to climate change-induced hazards besides their traditional use, thus making climate change resilient-cities.
Keywords: Climate Change; Inter-scalar; Open Space; Resilience; Eco-Networking
Present Dhaka has grown from defence and trade outpost of Sultanate capital at Sonargaon. The oldest area was within the confines of Dholai Khal. It gradually expanded with a tremendous boost at the arrival of the Mughals and making Dhaka capital of their eastern province Bangala. Together with the prevailing social structure, spatial development was smooth and sustainable. Shifting of Mughal capital from Dhaka and the arrival of the British colonial administration changed the development trend caused disruption in the continuity. Prevailing social institutions were uprooted and new spatial vocabulary was introduced creating a mismatch in the development trend.
Keywords: architecture, inscriptions, literary studies, Buddhist architecture, Bengal
Cities are now experiencing a number of sustainability challenges in the context of climate change. To reduce the vulnerable impacts of climate change, it is now important to identify a climate-change adaptation strategy that would reduce the hazard risk in the cities from climate change-induced flooding, temperature rise, sea-level rise, landslides, and earthquakes. In an urban area, open spaces have the potential in building the functional capacity of urban structures. Based on their multifunctional capability, there are different types of open spaces used for different functions including spaces for recreation and relaxation, for agriculture and gardening, for ventilation and cooling, for water absorption and groundwater formation as well as for stationary or moving traffic and for public gathering. Literature shows that open space networking in an urban area has the potential to create a cost-effective climate-change adaptation/resilience strategy. This paper attempts to identify the cities vulnerability due to climate change-induced hazards and also to identify types and patterns of distribution of open spaces that would be responsive/resilient to climate change-induced hazards besides their traditional use, thus making climate change resilient-cities.
Keywords: Climate Change; Inter-scalar; Open Space; Resilience; Eco-Networking
Present Dhaka has grown from defence and trade outpost of Sultanate capital at Sonargaon. The oldest area was within the confines of Dholai Khal. It gradually expanded with a tremendous boost at the arrival of the Mughals and making Dhaka capital of their eastern province Bangala. Together with the prevailing social structure, spatial development was smooth and sustainable. Shifting of Mughal capital from Dhaka and the arrival of the British colonial administration changed the development trend caused disruption in the continuity. Prevailing social institutions were uprooted and new spatial vocabulary was introduced creating a mismatch in the development trend.
Keywords: architecture, inscriptions, literary studies, Buddhist architecture, Bengal
In Bangladesh, the Mughal mosques consist of only a prayer hall, which is single-aisled with three or five bays. The exterior surfaces are plastered and panelled, the cornices are straight, and the buildings have higher domes. Local geo-climate forced some adaptations and transformations.
Bangladesh is a deltaic country located in the tropical monsoon zone signifying that the country is full of water bodies, water channels and rivers, besides, receiving a high amount of rainfalls. It automatically suggests that surface and rainwater management and Conservation
should be the prime approach and source of the country’s water needs and planning. There was a time when water management and conservation system was a part of settlement and shelter planning
and design. The contemporary settlement planning system has resulted in the disruption of community participation in water management and therefore there is a collapse in traditional water harvesting and conservation systems. Review of water conservation and management
potentialities in Dhaka suggest that traditional and contemporary ways of water conservation and management systems if interwoven with the system of settlement planning than theoretically Dhaka will not have any water shortfalls. The presentation discusses the technicalities to be incorporated into the urban-design system.
KEYWORDS: Urban-Design; Water-Management; Conservation; Environment; Sustainable Development.