The Changing Face of a Megacity's Key Industrial Hub in Bangladesh : Towards Assessing its Emerging Transformation Pattern for Pertinent Future Urban Development

Dhaka, the 8th largest megacities of the world, along with its dense and ever-increasing influx of urban population has experienced significant urban growth during the last fifty years. Land uses have undergone a massive unplanned development since the liberation war of Bangladesh in 1971. This resulted in an outward expansion of Dhaka city toward its peripheral vicinity. Eventually, Tejgaon becomes the major attraction for immense industrial activity to meet the mounting demand of emergent population and finds its location in the core of the city from the peripheral location as designated in 1959 master plan of Dhaka city. Incessant changes in land uses have altered the physical characteristics of the area from the state as it was designed by Dhaka Improvement Trust (DIT) in 1968. A Government decision from the People’s Republic of Bangladesh in 2015 to develop the area as a commercial cum residential hub has strike the issue again questioning the potential of that particular area for proposed urban gentrification. Therefore this research explores the development potential of Tejgaon industrial area from land use perspective for urban gentrification and hence project the development pattern in conformity with the planning of surrounding. As a major outcome, this research has revealed that there exists an increasing trend of commercial activities and the rate of growth of commercial activities in this area is greater than that of an industrial one. Furthermore, with detail updated and scrutinized information of existing land use and contemporary development trend of this particular expanse, this research can act as a major reference study for forthcoming development planning decision making and further policy implications related to the study area under consideration