Like other urban areas in Bangladesh, Khulna is also facing acute housing shortage. The urbanization of the City has suddenly triggered up. To mitigate the additional housing shortage of Khulna City private land developers came forward with public sector. Most of their projects is located on the South-Western fringe of Khulna City. People are fascinated to buy the plots from those developers, because of low price and to avoid the complexity of land purchasing procedure. In absence of any control mechanism these residential areas are being developed without adequate provision of the utility...

Assessing the contribution of growth centre in the rural and even regional economic development is very difficult because of the difficulties of assigning values to the components of this contribution. This book incorporated the upshot of growth centre for economic and social development of rural Bangladesh. An attempt has been made to expose the changes in social life as well as in physical development of the area after built up the Growth centre. Thus, the more increase in the numbers of buyers in these markets, more will be the trade volume and turn over which perpetuate local...