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Liveability and vitality: an exploration of small cities in Bangladesh
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Abstract This paper presents a mixed method, participatory exploration of liveability as a stocktaking assessment with projections for urban vitality in cities, particularly in LMIC, small cities. The paper takes as its case study research conducted in 2019 and 2020 in Mongla and Noapara, south west Bangladesh. This paper illustrates firstly, the possibilities for the concept of liveability to produce nuanced, granular understandings of how small cities such as Mongla and Noapara function and are experienced by residents: how residents negotiate social processes, power relations, and access to resources that shape their everyday living. Secondly, the paper considers how liveability enables assessments of a city's vitality in the present and its potential vitality in the future: how cities might cope and develop in the face of rapid urbanization, chronic difficulties, and acute crises. This research combines work in under-researched LMIC small cities, practical research towards more nuanced and socially just deployment of the notion of ‘urban liveability’ and urban vitalist discourse to argue for a people centred urbanism for the future.
Highlights Small regional cities in LMICs are academically underexplored. Liveability stock-taking of informal settlement and middle income residents Nuanced understanding of liveability leads to thinking of complexity of vitality. Residents of Mongla and Noapara Bangladesh liked living in their cities. Residents saw their future in these small regional cities.
Liveability and vitality: an exploration of small cities in Bangladesh
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3895-4881
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3125-173X
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2900-3083
Abstract This paper presents a mixed method, participatory exploration of liveability as a stocktaking assessment with projections for urban vitality in cities, particularly in LMIC, small cities. The paper takes as its case study research conducted in 2019 and 2020 in Mongla and Noapara, south west Bangladesh. This paper illustrates firstly, the possibilities for the concept of liveability to produce nuanced, granular understandings of how small cities such as Mongla and Noapara function and are experienced by residents: how residents negotiate social processes, power relations, and access to resources that shape their everyday living. Secondly, the paper considers how liveability enables assessments of a city's vitality in the present and its potential vitality in the future: how cities might cope and develop in the face of rapid urbanization, chronic difficulties, and acute crises. This research combines work in under-researched LMIC small cities, practical research towards more nuanced and socially just deployment of the notion of ‘urban liveability’ and urban vitalist discourse to argue for a people centred urbanism for the future.
Highlights Small regional cities in LMICs are academically underexplored. Liveability stock-taking of informal settlement and middle income residents Nuanced understanding of liveability leads to thinking of complexity of vitality. Residents of Mongla and Noapara Bangladesh liked living in their cities. Residents saw their future in these small regional cities.
Liveability and vitality: an exploration of small cities in Bangladesh
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3895-4881
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3125-173X
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2900-3083
Abstract This paper presents a mixed method, participatory exploration of liveability as a stocktaking assessment with projections for urban vitality in cities, particularly in LMIC, small cities. The paper takes as its case study research conducted in 2019 and 2020 in Mongla and Noapara, south west Bangladesh. This paper illustrates firstly, the possibilities for the concept of liveability to produce nuanced, granular understandings of how small cities such as Mongla and Noapara function and are experienced by residents: how residents negotiate social processes, power relations, and access to resources that shape their everyday living. Secondly, the paper considers how liveability enables assessments of a city's vitality in the present and its potential vitality in the future: how cities might cope and develop in the face of rapid urbanization, chronic difficulties, and acute crises. This research combines work in under-researched LMIC small cities, practical research towards more nuanced and socially just deployment of the notion of ‘urban liveability’ and urban vitalist discourse to argue for a people centred urbanism for the future.
Highlights Small regional cities in LMICs are academically underexplored. Liveability stock-taking of informal settlement and middle income residents Nuanced understanding of liveability leads to thinking of complexity of vitality. Residents of Mongla and Noapara Bangladesh liked living in their cities. Residents saw their future in these small regional cities.
Liveability and vitality: an exploration of small cities in Bangladesh
Ruszczyk, Hanna A. (author) / Halligey, Alexandra (author) / Rahman, Mohammad Feisal (author) / Ahmed, Istiakh (author)
Cities ; 133
2022-12-04
Article (Journal)
Electronic Resource
English
Small cities , Liveability , Vitalism , LMICs , Bangladesh , Mixed methods
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