urbanisation

Free skies and open playgrounds, that's what our children need. Photo: Md. Enamul Kabir
In Focus

No place to play

Taking away the playgrounds in a modern urbanised Bangladesh will only produce self-absorbed and zombified youth who are frail in body and mind. Is this the ideal nation we fought to realise?

Rapid urbanisation boosts housing in districts towns
Videos

Rapid urbanisation boosts housing in districts towns

Rapid urbanisation boosts housing in district towns
Industry

Rapid urbanisation boosts housing in district towns

Haphazard urbanisation stalls economic growth: Economists 
Economy

Haphazard urbanisation stalls economic growth: Economists 

Palm oil consumption in Bangladesh bound to grow with rapid urbanisation and growth in GDP: Experts
Economy

Palm oil consumption in Bangladesh bound to grow with rapid urbanisation and growth in GDP: Experts

People of earlier generations recall the beautiful place that once was Dhaka before it dwindled into becoming the sprawling urban slum it is today. Photo: Wikimedia Commons
Panorama

Dhaka: Infuriating and yet throbbing in the soul

Wait for decades as Rajuk deaf to plot ownership complaints
Bangladesh

Wait for decades as Rajuk deaf to plot ownership complaints

Asif Uddin Ahmed. Illustration: TBS
Thoughts

Leadership: Demystifying ‘doing the right thing’ in crisis

Photo: UNB
Bangladesh

Unplanned urbanisation leads to social inequality

Ahmad Tousif Jami and Mohammad Sifat. Illustration: TBS
Thoughts

The vicious circle of ever-increasing urbanisation and poverty: a domino effect

File photo of Dhaka. Picture: TBS
Bangladesh

New DAP ‘puts the cart before the horse’

Arafat Rahman, assistant officer of Career & Professional Development at Services Department at Southeast University. Illustration: TBS
Thoughts

Advantages and disadvantages of urbanisation

Photo: Collected
Bangladesh

Rural areas need to be transformed into planned urbanisation: LGRD minister