ACCESSIBILITY AND UTILIZATION OF DHAKA'S URBAN PARKS

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Nowadays urban parks are emerging as one of the most important spaces in the urban fabric. Many urban theorists described them as lungs of the cities, as suffocated city dwellers can enjoy there some breath of fresh air in stressful city life. People come to them for recreation, social gathering, and passive enjoyment; they help to enhance the image of a city also. But the result of rapid urban growth during 20^<th> century in Asian developing countries, public open spaces like parks have been neglected as being a part of the urban pattern in the mega cities. This trend causes also to increasing crime and declining social interaction among city dwellers, as activities in these areas disappeared for lack of appropriate spaces or inaccessibility of them. The study carried out on the urban parks of Dhaka city to measure the accessibility and utilization of them regarding the effects of rapid urban growth on their physical and functional structure, and limitations in management and policy. The paper has first, evaluated the present state and trend of Dhaka's urban park as a case, secondly it has assessed the accessibility and utilization of the urban parks through a questionnaire survey in the case study area, thirdly results reveals the state of urban parks of Dhaka city in terms of accessibility and utilization, and finally it concludes with a evaluation of the results.
2010-03-31