A built environment perspective on adaptation in urban informal settlements, Khulna, Bangladesh

Parvin, Afroza; Ashraful, Alam A. F. M.; Asad, Rumana

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“…In Khulna, there are around 520 informal settlements concentrated in three different parts of the city (KDA, 2002;Angeles et al, 2009). Health threats are predicted to have relatively severe impacts on these settlements, due to their geographical locations, poor socio-economic, and built-environmental conditions (Afroza et al, 2016). Urban informal settlements in Khulna are also distinguished by overcrowding, overreaching population growth trends, rapid urbanization with the urbanization of poverty, and intensification of economic activities.…”

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Assessment of Physical Standards of Housing for Healthy Living in Urban Informal Settlement: A Case of Rupsha Slum in Khulna

Hossain

Sultana

2023

J. of Eng. Sci.

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Overcrowding, poor structural quality of housing, and a lack of basic services and infrastructure differentiate informal settlement as a distinct type of community. Poor housing quality is directly connected to a greater risk of disease and illness in informal settlements. This research is being carried out to provide a comprehensive picture of the existing physical conditions of housing and aims to measure the deviation of housing quality between existing and standard healthy housing parameters in informal settlements. A substantial amount of fieldwork has been conducted to map the existing physical structure of the settlement and a list of preventable diseases suffered from poor housing is made through conducting a focus group discussion and interviews of 50 households in a distinct informal settlement situated in Bangladesh’s third-largest city, namely Khulna. To assess the housing quality a framework of standard housing is made by reviewing the book “Park’s textbook of preventive and social medicine” by K. Park. Results indicate that - 70% of the total household does not satisfy the minimum housing standard; in most cases, 4 or 5 persons must share a single room of 102 to 150 sqft area; a single toilet serves 180 people; the queuing time for drinking water from a tube well exceeds 45 minutes. The study also reveals the settler’s complex mechanism of compact living through space sharing dynamics. Journal of Engineering Science 13(2), 2022, 51-67

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