Violation of Land Use Plan and Its Impact on Community Life in Dhaka City

Dhaka, the capital city of Bangladesh, is experiencing one of the highest rate of urbanization in the world. Over the years, the city has had inconsistent transformation of land use and organic development; which in turn created crisis in residential areas or neighborhoods and affected the city life adversely. Bureaucratic problems, political influence, lack of appropriate mechanism for land development for the residential areas, ineffective implementation, poor supervision and monitoring system are continuously creating the opportunity to alter or violate the land use plan. Based on field observation and secondary information, this paper focuses on the issue of land use plan violation and its socioeconomic impacts in Dhaka City. This paper also provides a guideline regarding implementation of land use plan for comfortable living environment in Dhaka City.

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Violation of Land Use Plan and Its Impact on Community Life in Dhaka City