Urbanization Research Paper

Importance of seeking Balanced Patterns of Urbanization by Decentralization-The Case of Dhaka

Abstract

Megacities and their regions diversely play important roles in national and international contexts. City provides opportunities for economic growth and development and quality life for its population and services to its newly urbanized areas. As a capital city, Dhaka has potentials for becoming a global city with its geopolitical location and economic prospects. It has political and administrative advantages in the national context and scope for utilizing the benefits of urban economics, especially agglomerations, concentration of labor and financial institutions, and business services. But problems of our Dhaka are continuously in the lime

The paper first sets out causes of Urbanization in different aspects, and then considers how practice around the developing world appears to differ from what that theory appears to suggest. Again Urbanization is highly initiated with Decentralization. As there is strong linkage between decentralization and urbanization; next this study point out that developing an environment friendly decentralized urban zone all over country will ensure sustainable development. As extreme and unplanned urbanization is one of the key challenges, this paper tries to embrace the issues of challenges of urban growth focusing on direct consequences of urbanization on Dhaka & why decentralization is required. The study analyzes Forces which work behind rapid urbanization in Bangladesh. An assessment has also been made to evaluate, the positive and negative impacts of balanced urbanization and decentralization to ease pressure on Dhaka. The paper finally concludes providing some strategies and recommendations that might be helpful to the policy makers in formulating development policies for sustainable urban

Ever stronger linkages between urban and rural areas represent a challenge for sustainable development. Urbanization and the megacities co-evolve along a range with multiple types of flows and interactions. These provide an important potential role to decentralization. Decentralization can be an instrument for efficient and balanced urbanization. This paper highlights the need for new attention to the spatial dimensions of development through urban decentralization and to urban-rural linkages for sustainable development and reviews the evidence of synergies and pitfalls between urbanization and decentralization. Against this context, this paper addresses the specific question: how to guide urban-decentralization linkages toward sustainable development. Strong linkages enhance people's welfare and growth because they facilitate the flow of resources to where they have the largest net economic and social benefits. The paper attempts to identify reasons of imbalanced trend of urbanization of Dhaka and finds out importance of decentralization for sustainable development with some policy attention.

Research Objectives:

The general objective of this paper is to analyze the urbanization crisis that Bangladesh faces and arrive at an effective integrated long-term solution and formulate steps leading to that solution. The broad objective of this paper of mine is to identify major rationale of unplanned