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Shorn of its sacred grandeur the Padma has embraced its secularised and earthier image with some muscularity, audacity and flair. The meeting points where it combines with the Brahmaputra/Jamuna and later the Meghna in romantic and raucous exuberance, make the river almost “oceanic” in its scope, and create a river system that is not just mighty and heroic, but almost epic in
When al-Mansur laid the foundation of Baghdad in 762 on the banks of the Tigris, he imagined an ideal city in the shape of a round plan. There has always been a symbolic import to the form and shape of the city in envisioning ideal cities. The city of Bhaktapur in Nepal is made of meandering streets and irregular forms, but once a year, citizens carry out ritual processions in which they enact a mental mandala form for the city. Renaissance Europe has ample examples of planning cities that fused perfect geometric plans with visions of ideal societies. In the agricultural civiliSation of Benga...
An area development plan of Jinhua city, China, designed to accommodate floods instead of fighting them by building walls (designed by Kongjian Yu and Turenscape). No one doubts the magnitude of complexity that shrouds Dhaka, this city of 16 million poised between being the worst liveable and an economic colossus. The more complex a city is, the greater the need for dare and innovation in envisioning its future. Overwhelmed by conventional practices and policies, most planning initiatives are discouraged from considering innovative possibilities. The 2016-2035 Detailed Area Plan (DAP) takes ...