Abstract
In the year 2008, the total urban population outstripped the rural population throughout the world. The majority of people who started to live in urban areas created an enormous amount of pressure on the existence of cities and this influenced the growth of a large number of slum population in most of the countries of the world. Like other countries, Bangladesh has also experienced the growth of slum population. Most importantly, people who are coming to the cities for their livelihoods do not have tenure of land, and thus, they start to reside anywhere they find vacant. Thus, this chapter explores why slums form globally and later in the context of Bangladesh. In addition to this, slum upgrading initiatives in the country have been discussed briefly.
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The urban population in Bangladesh totals 27% (2008 estimate). And the rate of urbanization is 4.5% (2005–2010 estimate), Retrieved from http://www.eoearth.org/article/Urbanization_Rates_of_Countries, on 25/10/2010.
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For details about the project, please visit http://www.nabolokbd.org/urban.htm.
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The interim government took the decision on 17 March 2007.
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For more details about the SHAHAR project, please visit http://www.ifpri.org/dataset/bangladesh-2.
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More information about the project can be found at: https://www.adb.org/projects/documents/lao-stwsssp-feb-2016-iee.
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Panday, P.K. (2020). Formation of Slums and Slums Upgrading Initiatives in Bangladesh. In: The Face of Urbanization and Urban Poverty in Bangladesh. Palgrave Macmillan, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-3332-7_4
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