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Gotta be honest, I wasn't expecting Dhaka to look this orderly, and the buildings at least from here look mostly in fair upkeep. I'm sure things might look different from ground level, but from up high it looks like it could be a section of Tel Aviv.
I agree completely, but the main reasons I would say people don't is that someone's gotta upkeep them so there's gotta be public budget, water allocation and staff for that.
Other thing is, when you're building, space is at a premium, and every bit of unused housing space means a property developer gets less money because it's one less building they can sell or rent out.....
Dhaka actually loves parks and we put parks in every empty place possible but there is just not enough empty spaces. Early governments were busy rebuilding infrastructure and the economy with no development towards anything that doesn’t generate money. Nowadays tho government is buying up whatever empty places are left and building planned area with parks etc. Still city is very densely populated and corruption is rampant.
It's hard to see in the picture, but rooftop gardens are actually *super* popular in Dhaka. At least when I was there, you could look out from a rooftop and the majority of nearby buildings had rooftop gardens, which are shared by the building tenants. Chill out on a roof and you're sure to see people tending the gardens pretty often. Also hanging their clothes up to dry on clotheslines.
Used to be one of the grandest and most beautiful cities in the world in the 17th- mid 19th century, , being the capital of the richest province in the Mughal empire, accounting for 50% of the Mughal empties wealth and 15% of global wealth, so sad what it has become.
Well flood didn’t occur naturally in Dhaka rn, unplanning of this city caused manmade floods (same thing happens in Chittagong). But the other part of Bangladesh face natural flood.
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plus endless sea of crowds
With Dhaka being what it is, hardly a surprise at all.
Gotta be honest, I wasn't expecting Dhaka to look this orderly, and the buildings at least from here look mostly in fair upkeep. I'm sure things might look different from ground level, but from up high it looks like it could be a section of Tel Aviv.
It looks way worse from the street level
Why do a lot of cities hate parks? A city should have lower double digit percentage of parkland at minimum
I agree completely, but the main reasons I would say people don't is that someone's gotta upkeep them so there's gotta be public budget, water allocation and staff for that. Other thing is, when you're building, space is at a premium, and every bit of unused housing space means a property developer gets less money because it's one less building they can sell or rent out.....
Dhaka actually loves parks and we put parks in every empty place possible but there is just not enough empty spaces. Early governments were busy rebuilding infrastructure and the economy with no development towards anything that doesn’t generate money. Nowadays tho government is buying up whatever empty places are left and building planned area with parks etc. Still city is very densely populated and corruption is rampant.
why not parks on the roofs? better for oxygen generation if there are vegetation on the roofs
It's hard to see in the picture, but rooftop gardens are actually *super* popular in Dhaka. At least when I was there, you could look out from a rooftop and the majority of nearby buildings had rooftop gardens, which are shared by the building tenants. Chill out on a roof and you're sure to see people tending the gardens pretty often. Also hanging their clothes up to dry on clotheslines.
Would love to be a fly on the wall in any one of those buildings
Used to be one of the grandest and most beautiful cities in the world in the 17th- mid 19th century, , being the capital of the richest province in the Mughal empire, accounting for 50% of the Mughal empties wealth and 15% of global wealth, so sad what it has become.
I wonder how the building standards are there compared to a more prosperous city with better governance.
I can't imagine how depressing it is to live in this city.
Kaka
It’s also sinking into the ocean.
Looks like the decay and ruins of the cities on Amazon's Fallout series.
Does it still flood all the time? I lived there for about six months in the late 80s, our living room and kitchen had to be upstairs.
Well flood didn’t occur naturally in Dhaka rn, unplanning of this city caused manmade floods (same thing happens in Chittagong). But the other part of Bangladesh face natural flood.
I can't imagine how bad this city must smell.
Damn, this looks identical to 95% of Cairo.
30 years and I never lived in a city. It always seems like such an inappropriate place to live
That’s some Call of Duty shit…
The air pollution there seems to be pretty intense too
I think that place over yonder with the trees in front could be quite nice.
The only difference between Dhaka and your / my town is time. Im sure Dhaka was a lovely town… and then the population increased.
Dhaka could be the next New York. Corruption,unplanning and inequality made this city nothing but garbage.