What kind of city do we really want?

Every year, nearly half a million people move to Dhaka, a population equivalent to an entire city like Cumilla or Mymensingh. As that pressure mounts, how much longer can Dhaka keep absorbing it?

In this Slow Reads' podcast, "What kind of city do we really want?", urban experts Kazi Khalid Ashraf and Adnan Zillur Morshed argue that the solution to Dhaka's crisis lies not within the capital, but beyond it.

Kazi Khaleed Ashraf is an architect and urbanist, and director-general of Bengal Institute for Architecture, Landscapes and Settlements. Adnan Zillur Morshed, PhD, is an architect, architectural historian, urbanist, and public intellectual. He is a professor of architecture and architectural history at the Catholic University of America in Washington, DC, and executive director of the Centre for Inclusive Architecture and Urbanism at BRAC University.

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