Revitalizing of urban mass housing community is a rare term in developing country like Bangladesh... more Revitalizing of urban mass housing community is a rare term in developing country like Bangladesh. But in Bangladesh, most of the housing facilities are developed without much planning intervention. A planned and well-designed housing mass provides a favorable environment for human resource development. Revitalization can help to develop this type of housing in a planned way. This study is about the revitalization of a mass-housing scheme located in the Khalishpur industrial estate of Khulna city in Bangladesh. The project was initiated to accommodate jute mills workers close to their working place. Most of the buildings of this study area were constructed in 1977s. The buildings were poorly maintained and the physical conditions of the houses do not satisfy the safety standards of living. Again, the services and facilities associated with the houses are not satisfactory. The study has attempted to investigate the existing housing condition of the study area, analyze the socio-economic circumstances of the inhabitants, explore the potentials for a revitalization scheme, and finally suggest some guidelines and design intervention for solving the problems and improving the housing condition in this locality. A sub-standard housing area with poor water and sewerage facilities, or lack of access to income-earning opportunities, can contribute to low family income, poor health, and poor environment. Well-planned housing, on the other hand, can increase national productivity, the economy of urban space, and minimize the cost of urban infrastructure. Housing should be given proper priority since together with education, better nutrition, improved health service, and other social services, it fosters the development of human resources. Good housing can help to raise the productivity of a countries labor force and accelerate a country’s development process. In this study, sustainable development of the housing locality is the prime concern, which can be achieved through the revitalization of this community. Sustainable development is conceived to be anchored on three pillars, which are to evolve concomitantly on sustainable factors, namely, economic, social and environmental; and to be centered on the human being, implying that the process of sustainable development is necessarily inclusive and should promote unity in cultural and other forms of diversity. Well-established, inhabited housing estates provide an opportunity to better understand the social as well as built environmental and economic components of sustainability. Sustainable development also invokes intra- and intergenerational equity, i.e. equity among and within nations at the present time and the management of natural and other resources such that while the present generation meets its needs, the future generations can meet theirs too.
Revitalizing of urban mass housing community is a rare term in developing country like Bangladesh... more Revitalizing of urban mass housing community is a rare term in developing country like Bangladesh. But in Bangladesh, most of the housing facilities are developed without much planning intervention. A planned and well-designed housing mass provides a favorable environment for human resource development. Revitalization can help to develop this type of housing in a planned way. This study is about the revitalization of a mass-housing scheme located in the Khalishpur industrial estate of Khulna city in Bangladesh. The project was initiated to accommodate jute mills workers close to their working place. Most of the buildings of this study area were constructed in 1977s. The buildings were poorly maintained and the physical conditions of the houses do not satisfy the safety standards of living. Again, the services and facilities associated with the houses are not satisfactory. The study has attempted to investigate the existing housing condition of the study area, analyze the socio-economic circumstances of the inhabitants, explore the potentials for a revitalization scheme, and finally suggest some guidelines and design intervention for solving the problems and improving the housing condition in this locality. A sub-standard housing area with poor water and sewerage facilities, or lack of access to income-earning opportunities, can contribute to low family income, poor health, and poor environment. Well-planned housing, on the other hand, can increase national productivity, the economy of urban space, and minimize the cost of urban infrastructure. Housing should be given proper priority since together with education, better nutrition, improved health service, and other social services, it fosters the development of human resources. Good housing can help to raise the productivity of a countries labor force and accelerate a country’s development process. In this study, sustainable development of the housing locality is the prime concern, which can be achieved through the revitalization of this community. Sustainable development is conceived to be anchored on three pillars, which are to evolve concomitantly on sustainable factors, namely, economic, social and environmental; and to be centered on the human being, implying that the process of sustainable development is necessarily inclusive and should promote unity in cultural and other forms of diversity. Well-established, inhabited housing estates provide an opportunity to better understand the social as well as built environmental and economic components of sustainability. Sustainable development also invokes intra- and intergenerational equity, i.e. equity among and within nations at the present time and the management of natural and other resources such that while the present generation meets its needs, the future generations can meet theirs too.
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to develop this type of housing in a planned way. This study is about the revitalization of a mass-housing scheme located in the Khalishpur industrial estate of Khulna city in Bangladesh. The project was initiated to accommodate jute mills workers close to their working place. Most of the buildings of this study area were constructed in 1977s. The
buildings were poorly maintained and the physical conditions of the houses do not satisfy the safety standards of living. Again, the services and facilities associated with the houses are not satisfactory. The study has attempted to investigate the existing housing condition of the study area, analyze the socio-economic circumstances of the inhabitants, explore the potentials for a revitalization scheme, and finally suggest some guidelines and design intervention for solving the problems and improving the housing condition in this locality. A sub-standard housing
area with poor water and sewerage facilities, or lack of access to income-earning opportunities, can contribute to low family income, poor health, and poor environment. Well-planned housing, on the other hand, can increase national productivity, the economy of urban space, and minimize the cost of urban infrastructure. Housing should be
given proper priority since together with education, better nutrition, improved health service, and other social services, it fosters the development of human resources. Good housing can help to raise the productivity of a countries labor force and accelerate a country’s development process. In this study, sustainable development of the
housing locality is the prime concern, which can be achieved through the revitalization of this community. Sustainable development is conceived to be anchored on three pillars, which are to evolve concomitantly on sustainable factors, namely, economic, social and environmental; and to be centered on the human being, implying that the process of sustainable development is necessarily inclusive and should promote unity in cultural and other forms of diversity. Well-established, inhabited housing estates provide an opportunity to better understand the social as well as built environmental and economic components of sustainability. Sustainable development also invokes intra- and intergenerational equity, i.e. equity among and within nations at the present time and the management of natural and other resources such that while the present generation meets its needs, the future generations can meet theirs too.
to develop this type of housing in a planned way. This study is about the revitalization of a mass-housing scheme located in the Khalishpur industrial estate of Khulna city in Bangladesh. The project was initiated to accommodate jute mills workers close to their working place. Most of the buildings of this study area were constructed in 1977s. The
buildings were poorly maintained and the physical conditions of the houses do not satisfy the safety standards of living. Again, the services and facilities associated with the houses are not satisfactory. The study has attempted to investigate the existing housing condition of the study area, analyze the socio-economic circumstances of the inhabitants, explore the potentials for a revitalization scheme, and finally suggest some guidelines and design intervention for solving the problems and improving the housing condition in this locality. A sub-standard housing
area with poor water and sewerage facilities, or lack of access to income-earning opportunities, can contribute to low family income, poor health, and poor environment. Well-planned housing, on the other hand, can increase national productivity, the economy of urban space, and minimize the cost of urban infrastructure. Housing should be
given proper priority since together with education, better nutrition, improved health service, and other social services, it fosters the development of human resources. Good housing can help to raise the productivity of a countries labor force and accelerate a country’s development process. In this study, sustainable development of the
housing locality is the prime concern, which can be achieved through the revitalization of this community. Sustainable development is conceived to be anchored on three pillars, which are to evolve concomitantly on sustainable factors, namely, economic, social and environmental; and to be centered on the human being, implying that the process of sustainable development is necessarily inclusive and should promote unity in cultural and other forms of diversity. Well-established, inhabited housing estates provide an opportunity to better understand the social as well as built environmental and economic components of sustainability. Sustainable development also invokes intra- and intergenerational equity, i.e. equity among and within nations at the present time and the management of natural and other resources such that while the present generation meets its needs, the future generations can meet theirs too.