The last government decided to split the four hundred year old city into North and South Dhaka. The original decision had some merit to it. Dhaka is enormous in terms of population and complexities. The greater metropolitan area hosts about 25 million people (2024 estimate), which is comparable to Norway, Finland, Ireland, Denmark and Croatia’s …
What’s the fundamental point of the existence of a city? I think it is—proximity. Proximity is the single most important reason for the cities to exist. Remove proximity, the cities disappear. That’s why “social distancing” can never be “normal” in a city. However it may be defined, it can never be palatable in the long …