Public space networks
A concept area for linking streets, markets, parks, schools, and civic edges into safer everyday public life.
Planning themes
Concept areas for Bangladesh's urban future
Purbo frames project content as planning themes and focus areas, not claims of finished assignments, so the site can grow honestly with future work.
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Themes, not a portfolio of past assignments
These entries describe recurring planning questions and concept areas that can guide future collaborations, research, and public briefs.
Focus areas
Questions Purbo is prepared to study
The themes connect urban planning, public space, climate resilience, mobility, and community planning across dense neighborhoods and changing corridors.
Mobility access
A focus area for walking, transit reach, last-mile gaps, freight pressure, and street use conflicts.
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Old Dhaka renewal without erasing local life
A planning theme for heritage streets, mixed-use blocks, markets, small workshops, mobility pressure, and public safety in dense historic areas.
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Chittagong corridors between hills, port, and neighborhoods
A focus area for transport access, slope and drainage risk, public space gaps, and growth choices in a city shaped by terrain and trade.
Concept area
River corridors as public and ecological edges
A planning theme for access, flooding, open space, working landscapes, and climate resilience along water-linked urban edges.
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A planning theme can become a research question, stakeholder workshop, spatial audit, concept note, or implementation roadmap.