#urbaniztion #bangladesh

1. Role
Topics
Welcome
WELCOME
TO OUR PRESENTATION
WELCOME
TO OUR PRESENTATION

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Challenges
Gravity
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Topics
URBANIZATIO
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CONCLUSIO
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SUSTAINABLE
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IMPORTANCE
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INTRODUCTION
Urbanization is a population shift
from rural to urban areas, and the
ways in which society adapts to the
change. It predominantly results in
the physical growth of urban areas,
be it horizontal or vertical
Urban Population Persons living in
cities or towns of 2,500 or more
residents and Urbanized area One or
more place and the adjacent densely
populated surrounding area that
together have a minimum
population of 50,000.

4. about
Challenges
Gravity
IMPORTANCE
urbanization worldwide has been found to be an
effective engine of economic growth and socio-
cultural development. In pure economic terms,
urbanization contributes significantly to the national
economy. Even in Bangladesh (at only 28 per cent
urban), this sector currently contributes to more
than 65 per cent of the national GDP (ADB). This has
grown from as low as 25 per cent in 1972-73 and 45
per cent in 1995-96.
Bangladesh has a fairly well-balanced urban system in the sense that there is an urban center
for each and every region under the central government administrative authority. Most of the
divisional (in other words, regional) cities are metropolitan cities, all 64 districts have a city or
a town of reasonable size (varying from 50,000-400,000), and each of the 490 Upazilas have
at least one small town. The distribution of large and medium size cities and towns
throughout the country offers reasonable access to urban services to most areas in the
country including remote rural settlements.

5. about
Challenge
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CHALLENGES
1) The Challenge of the massive size of the national and urban population,
2) Challenge of spatial imbalance in urbanization,
3) Challenge of enhancing urban economic productivity and providing employment,
4) Challenge of urban poverty alleviation,
5) Challenge of providing access to land and housing,
6) Challenges in provision of urban utilities and services
7) Challenge of education and of access to health services,
8) Challenge of providing transportation services;
9) Challenges of environmental management: degradation and pollution, climate change and
natural hazards,
10) Challenge of crime and violence,
11) Challenge of political social and cultural conflicts,
12) Problems of special groups,
13) Challenge of urban resource mobilization,
14) Challenge of institutionalizing urban vision, policymaking, urban planning and planned
urban development,
15) and finally Challenge of governance.

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SUSTINABLE
DEVLOPMENTThe (Draft) National Urban Policy envisions
massive the beneficial aspects of urbanization
and at the same time effectively dealing with its
negative consequences so as to achieve
sustainable urbanization, keeping in view the
multi-dimensional nature of the urbanization
process. The policy envisions a decentralized and
participatory process of urban development in
which the central government, the local
government, the private sector, the civil society
and the people all have their roles to play.
Over the past 25 years, the global urban
population has grown from just over 2.5 billion
people in 1990 to just under 4 billion in 2015,
which represents an increase from 43% to 54% of
the global population.166 During the 1990s,
urban populations grew at a rate of 57 million
people per year and from 2010 to 2015 that
growth increased to 77 million people per year

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Strategie
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STRATEGIES & POLICIES
The broad sector of urbanization has been considered by the government of Bangladesh at
different times since the independence of the country. These policies and strategies were
outlined in the First Five Year Plan and almost all subsequent Five-Year Plans including the
Seventh Plan (2016-2020) and also in the Habitat National Reports (1976, 1996, 2001,
2016). However, the most comprehensive presentation of urbanization policy and strategy
has been in the National Urban Sector Policy (Draft 2011, updated 2015) which is still
awaiting formal cabinet approval.
It may be emphasized that these policy and strategy recommendations fully comply and
endorse the SDG 11 of the United Nations and the UN’s New Urban Agenda (2016-2020)
on Cities for All. The new Perspective Plan (2021-2041) and the very long-term
Bangladesh Delta Plan 2100 also consider the basic recommendations of the Urban Sector
Policy regarding urban environmental sustainability. It is worthwhile, therefore, to peruse
the basic contents of the policy.

8. Topic
STRATEGI
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Conclusi
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CONCLUSION
Finally, I would like to conclude my sharing by restating Dr. Abul Barakt's view : As
individuals, as a citizen and as a member of civil society, we all have much role to play
in accelerating sustained process of the inclusion of excluded for human development
in Bangladesh. And by way of our participation in this process we will become a
conscious part of the history of «transformation of human deprivation'. And we can
expedite the whole process, even within our limited scale of public action, if we
believe and practice the 3 "C" paradigm: CONCERN, COMMITMENT and
COMPETENCE.

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