A dangerous time for history
Governments are trying to control what could or could not be taught about their past.
Can the Metro Rail be a Great Equalizer?
A “new” type of urban mobility comes to fruition in the month of the country’s emancipation
There is just one way to save Dhaka
The notoriety of Dhaka’s traffic is now daily news. Civil society members have been venting frustration about this maddening crisis.
The sociology of eco-grief: Saving Suhrawardy Udyan
Eight years ago, in May, a large crowd staged a sit-in at Gezi Park, next to Taksim Square, Istanbul’s bustling public plaza in the downtown of its European side.
Memories, cultural imaginations and Dhaka
How do cities like Dhaka in the throes of frenzied development deal with memories and literary depictions in the process of their transformations?
Discrimination by design
I was reading a harrowing report in the New York Times that revealed startling data about how federal officials in the United States during the 1930s demarcated or “redlined” certain areas of different cities as “hazardous” or “risky for business,” based on the concentration of poor Black people or immigrants in them.
A dangerous time for history
Governments are trying to control what could or could not be taught about their past.
Can the Metro Rail be a Great Equalizer?
A “new” type of urban mobility comes to fruition in the month of the country’s emancipation
Footpaths of Bangladesh: Our complicated relationship with walking
Walking, sadly, is not part of our shared value system, and there are many reasons behind this.
Researching Rural Transformation 2.0 in Bangladesh
We need new research methodologies to understand the complex nature of the rural change in Bangladesh in the last two decades.
Mid-sized cities are our new urban frontier
A resilient and adjustable urban development policy for mid-sized cities is necessary to decentralise Dhaka.
Rural Bangladesh needs next-generation village roads
The streets of rural Bangladesh should value the safety and wellbeing of its users.
Understanding Rural Transformation 2.0 in Bangladesh
The traditional mental image of rural Bangladesh that we have is no longer a reality.
There is just one way to save Dhaka
The notoriety of Dhaka’s traffic is now daily news. Civil society members have been venting frustration about this maddening crisis.
Padma Bridge is a metaphorical countermovement
Recently, on a wintry afternoon, I went to see the Padma Bridge.
A time travel to Dhaka University’s 2034 convocation
It was Titian Matin’s first return to his native Bangladesh after he won the Nobel Prize in economics for his study of the reciprocal relationship between urban density and economic geography.