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Dhaka City has undergone radical changes in its physical form, not only by territorial expansion, but also through internal physical transformations over the last decades. These have created entirely new kinds of fabric. With these changes, the elements of urban form have changed. Plots and open spaces have been transformed into building areas, open squares into car parks, low land and water bodies into reclaimed built-up lands etc. This research has its general interest in the morphologic change of Dhaka City. It focuses on the spatial dynamics of urban growth of Dhaka over the last 55 years from 1952-2007. In the research, the transformation of urban form has been examined through space syntax. The aim behind using this technique is to describe aspects of relationships between the morphological structure of man-made environments and social structures and events. To conduct this research, Wards 49 and 72 of Dhaka City Corporation were selected as the study areas, of which Ward 72 is an indigenous and Ward 49 is a planned type of settlement. Being a planned residential area, the syntactic measures from this morphological analysis are showing quite unchanged and high values in all phases for Ward 49 and the physical characteristics of Ward 72 (Old Dhaka) still represent the past. The syntactic values are found to be higher for Ward 72 and than Ward 49. Higher values indicate that the street network is highly connective among each other. Time affects differently the layout of cities and the architecture of buildings. Of the many human creations, street systems are among the most resistant to change. This has been emphasized in this study, thereby facilitating the comparison of urban layouts across space and time. The interpretation of history in the light of quantitative accounts, as demonstrated in this study, will be of value to urban planners and urban designers for the future planning of modern Dhaka City.

In most of the cities in Bangladesh, there is a considerable lacking in providing public services comparing with the demand. This study aims to identify the deficiencies in providing public services in three selected blocks of Khulna city, Bangladesh. Blocks are considered here as an individual small administrative unit within the jurisdiction of Khulna City Corporation. First the study identified the spatial concentration of the services among the blocks. The comparative situation of the blocks in terms of public services was viewed by location quotient method and Gini coefficient and neighbourhood standard were consider to identify the deficiencies. The study found that two of the blocks are comparatively developed while the other one lag far behind the mean level of development of the city. Lastly on the basis of population and space standard, required facilities for each of the blocks were calculated

Availability of different types of public facilities within an urban area is required to achieve specific objectives in urban planning. Planning standards are necessary in such cases to help achieve the adequacy and quality in services and facilities. To improve the situation in rapid and unplanned growth of Dhaka city both in terms of population and size, it demands a large amount of public facilities such as open spaces, playgrounds, schools, hospitals etc. School is an important public facility that requires setting standards and choosing appropriate locations. Standard of school facilities in an area depends upon factors such as, density of population, number of per family school going children, road network etc. This paper explores the existing facilities of primary and secondary schools for school going children in Ward 50 of Dhaka City Corporation. A series of field survey were conducted in order to collect information from primary sources, and standards on school facilities were collected from secondary sources. Based on the findings, suggestions on future planning of school facilities have been made in this paper. Finally, to justify the standards for schools facilities, DMDP planning standards are followed.

Dhaka City has grown beyond all expectations in terms of population, activities and spatial coverage due to rapid and spontaneous urbanization and resulting in extensive demand of public facilities such as opens spaces, schools, utility services and facilities. For well functioning of a city, it is very important to ensure the optimum location of different public facilities. However, public facility planning usually practices as planning standards, which may not be sufficient enough to find the best sites for facilities. This paper articulates this pitfall of public facility planning and determines the availability and optimum locations of schools and finally stipulates the solution space of the optimally allocated schools within ward no. 50 of Dhaka City Corporation. This paper reveals that the optimally located schools will cover 78 percent of the study area which is higher than the coverage of the existing ones (59 percent) in case of buffer zone of 450 meters. Thus this study will assist policy makers for spatial planning of educational institutions as well as other public facilities not only in new areas but also in the already developed but unplanned areas.

Dhaka, the capital city of Bangladesh with huge population pressure has to face different sorts of problems in different sectors. The most significant problem in the Dhaka City is transportation problem with severe traffic congestion, improper planning and inefficient management system, lack of proper integration among different type of modes, insufficient public contribution in this sector and so on. Due to these problems the people of the city have to suffer a lot in terms of time hammering, loss of money, inefficiency in their daily works. In the STP (Strategic Transport Plan) of Dhaka city, some proposal has been reported to solve the problems in which introducing BRT system in Dhaka city seems to be most useful one. But the detail design of BRT and management procedure to operate it has not yet been done. The paper provides a review of the existing transportation system of Dhaka and to carry out the design proposal for Bus Rapid Transit (BRT). It is not only concerned with the design but also to deal with the post implementation works like the operational management and fare collection process as well as the maintenance. The sustainability of the project would very much depend on these issues.