Living with Transformation Self-Built Housing in the City of Dhaka /

• Main Author: Khan, Tareef Hayat (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Heidelberg : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2014.
• Series: SpringerBriefs in Geography,
• Subjects: Geography.; Regional planning.; Urban planning.; City planning.; Building repair.; Buildings > Repair and reconstruction.; Landscape/Regional and Urban Planning.; Building Repair and Maintenance.; Urbanism.

This book describes and analyzes the phenomenon of spontaneous transformation in self-built houses in the context of developing countries. After describing briefly the history of self-built houses and the phenomenon of transformation around the world, it focuses on its context, the city of Dhaka. Fi...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction
• Self-built houses (SBH) and city of Dhaka
• Spontaneous Transformation (ST), an integral phenomenon of SBH
• Structural analysis of ST in SBH in Dhaka: The explicit physical patterns
• Embedded explicit reasons behind ST
• Implicit Values behind ST
• Conclusion.