Abstract
This paper attempts to explore the evolutionary changes in the retail growth in Dhaka City. Within different stages of historical growth, how the socio-economic forces and the changing spatial configuration of the city shaped the spatial structure of retail growth remains the main investigation of this paper. Based on the reviewed literature of Dhaka’s Historical growth and a computer based analysis ‘Space Syntax’, the key factors have been discussed in this paper are; (i) a brief historical overview of the retail growth process in Dhaka, (ii) the changing socio-economic and political conditions influencing the spatialization of this growth process and pattern and (iii) an understanding of the global spatial structure of the city and the spatial significance of the changing retail areas in context through ‘Space Syntax’computer based technique. The study identifies the influence of socio-economic and spatial variables on the changing retail environment in Dhaka and the spatial outcome of the process. The findings suggest that, the spatial aspects of accessible location are the prime concerns in changing and shaping the urban retail land uses in Dhaka. This paper leads to a new level of understanding of the way that urban retail land uses and their unplanned spatial distribution at city scale interact as social and spatial mechanisms in the global context of the city.
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