Tannery Industries in the Hajaribagh Area and Its Impact on the Urban Form and Morphology
TANNERY INDUSTRIES IN THE HAJARIBAGH AREA AND ITS IMPACT ON THE URBAN FORM AND MORPHOLOGY
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A b s t r a c t
Hazaribagh is a densely populated unplanned area of Dhaka city where about 185 leather processing industries have been operating and discharging solid and liquid wastes directly to the low-lying areas, river and natural canals without proper treatment. For this unsympathetic development of the city urban living environment is deteriorating and becoming unlivable.
Hazaribagh area is an unplanned area where leather processing industries have begun to develop from 1950s. Due to the rapid expansion of these industries since 1950s and their untreated toxic effluent discharge, it has a measurable impact on the living environment of this area. The regulatory measures are not that much practiced to restrict pollution. So the contamination level has reached to a level that the citizens are suffering from different pollution related problems.
A detailed level policy frame work and planning implication is essential for the development of the area and for ensuring livable environment. To assess the environmental degradation of heavy metals of water samples, heavy metals and organic carbon content of sediment were analyzed by many project works and thesis. This study is based on secondary source materials and is focused on how these tannery industries evolved in this particular place? Why it has emerged so rapidly? And what impact it has been extending to the surrounding zones especially on the forms and morphology of the neighborhood.
TABLE OF CONTENT
1. Introduction 4
2. Objectives and scope of the Study 5
3. Methodology 5
4. History of Tannery Industry in Bangladesh 6
5. Hazaribagh Tannery in Dhaka City 6
6. Hazaribagh Tannery: Impact on the form and morphology in Surrounding Environment 8 6.1 Houses and Residence of Hazaribagh Tannery 9 6.2 Road Network and Drainage System of Hazaribagh Tannery 10
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A b s t r a c t
Hazaribagh is a densely populated unplanned area of Dhaka city where about 185 leather processing industries have been operating and discharging solid and liquid wastes directly to the low-lying areas, river and natural canals without proper treatment. For this unsympathetic development of the city urban living environment is deteriorating and becoming unlivable.
Hazaribagh area is an unplanned area where leather processing industries have begun to develop from 1950s. Due to the rapid expansion of these industries since 1950s and their untreated toxic effluent discharge, it has a measurable impact on the living environment of this area. The regulatory measures are not that much practiced to restrict pollution. So the contamination level has reached to a level that the citizens are suffering from different pollution related problems.
A detailed level policy frame work and planning implication is essential for the development of the area and for ensuring livable environment. To assess the environmental degradation of heavy metals of water samples, heavy metals and organic carbon content of sediment were analyzed by many project works and thesis. This study is based on secondary source materials and is focused on how these tannery industries evolved in this particular place? Why it has emerged so rapidly? And what impact it has been extending to the surrounding zones especially on the forms and morphology of the neighborhood.
TABLE OF CONTENT
1. Introduction 4
2. Objectives and scope of the Study 5
3. Methodology 5
4. History of Tannery Industry in Bangladesh 6
5. Hazaribagh Tannery in Dhaka City 6
6. Hazaribagh Tannery: Impact on the form and morphology in Surrounding Environment 8 6.1 Houses and Residence of Hazaribagh Tannery 9 6.2 Road Network and Drainage System of Hazaribagh Tannery 10
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