Md. Abdur Rouf

[ 1 ] - Twentieth Century Urbanization in Bangladesh and a Spell of High and Unsustainable Urban Growth

Bangladesh is still a low urbanized country although it experienced a rising trend in the level of urbanization throughout the twentieth century and had a remarkably high urban growth immediately after its independence in 1971. The country recorded the highest ever annual average growth rate (9.04) and percentage of interval variation (137.57%) in an urban population in 1974; thereafter, growth...