Saimum Kabir

University of Melbourne | MSD · Architecture Building and Planning

In cities along Bengal Delta, socio-spatial dialectics of water and everyday life often remain absent in the discourses on urbanism. This chapter explores the ways residents’ and service providers’ perceptions on ponds and waterbodies converge or diverge in Barisal, a medium-sized city in Bangladesh. Building on GIS data, key informant interviews a...

Building material always plays an important role in the generation of form and character in architecture, which varies from region to region depending on locally available material. In this climatic domain, mud houses are typical and hold an important part of our traditional shelter. Being a delta, the land of Bangladesh is a renewable source for r...

Dhaka is witnessing a process of urban expansion at sheer scale and speed. With the growing influx of population, the geographical boundary of Dhaka is also expanding. Satellite towns are planned at the fringe and outskirt of the city to meet the housing demand of increased population. Realizing that-in absence of efficient commuter facility this v...

Urban mobility is one of the pressing challenges Dhaka City facing today. Existing car based mobility network has already proven ineffective and thus leads to congestion, inequity and unhealthy urban environment. Even though largest portion of city population travels by walk, pedestrian mobility has been severely compromised especially in newly pla...

Post industrial urban discourses advocate for socially responsive urban environment inspired from the traditional or indigenous urban development to achieve a more lively and vibrant urban space. The core idea of this discourse involves conservation of environmental quality and promotion of social equity which has often failed to address by the ant...

Post industrial urban discourses advocate for socially responsive urban environment inspired from the traditional or indigenous urban development to achieve a more lively and vibrant urban space. The core idea of this discourse involves conservation of environmental quality and promotion of social equity which has often failed to address by the ant...

Thermal environment of urban spaces plays a great role on the quality of life in a city. It directly affects people's behaviour and usage of outdoor spaces. Therefore, an environmentally conscious urban design solution should give high priority to the thermal comfort implications of urban microclimate. Deterioration of urban microclimate due to unp...

Communities in low elevation coastal zone (LECZ) of Bangladesh are exposed to the risk of sea born hazards at present and anticipated sea level rise (SLR) resulting from climate change. This will have serious impact on life and livelihood of coastal community including loss of habitable land. To arrest mass exodus of population, vulnerable communit...

Due to the anticipated adverse global effects of climate change and consequent sea level rise (SLR) Climate refugees are the inevitable reality of our time. The management and resettlement of these climate refugees will exert a serious pressure on already dense urban centers of Bangladesh. Assuming the climate change forecasts to be true it calls f...

In the milieu of climate change, adaptation is often considered as the most viable and manageable responses to contend with, especially for the developing country like Bangladesh. Historically human settlement in this delta has been evolved to adapt with the geo-physical and hydro-morphological characteristics of the landscape. In hazard prone area...