BANGLADESH TABLE OF CONTENTS 1. Editors'Note 2. Seminar Schedule (synopsis) 3. Seminar Schedule (details) 4. List of Organising and other Committees 5. List of Reviewers 6. Keynote SpeechProfessor Dr. Nizamuddin Ahmed Head, Department of Architecture, BUET 7. Seminar Papers SI. Paper title Author/s Country Page HABITAT AND HOMELESSNESS 1 Harnessing the Opulence within: Re-positioning the quest for housing the economically disadvantaged Dr. Kapila Silva Andrew Broderick USA USA 01 2 Living Environment for Dhaka's Urban Poor - An Analysis Dr. Qazi Azizul Mowla Mohammad Sazzad Hossain BANGLADESH BANGLADESH 08 3 Aspiring above the line: Spaces in Rural Homesteads of Bangladesh Dr. Fuad H Mallick Khondaker Hasibul Kabir BANGLADESH BANGLADESH 14 4 Comparison of Sustainability between Conventional Squatter & Squatter with a cooperative Society: A case study in Khulna city Gouri Shankar Roy A.K.M. Sirajuddin BANGLADESH BANGLADESH 19 5 Dis-advantaging the Disadvantaged Tanya Karim BANGLADESH 27 6 Architecture for Addressing Poverty: Emerging Issues in Bangladesh Mujtaba Ahsan Dr. Mahbubur Rahman BANGLADESH BANGLADESH 36 7 Habitat and Affordable Architecture Utpal Sharma Bhavesh Mehta INDIA INDIA 43 8 Increasing rural livability: coping with climate and flooding Dr. Zebun Nasreen Ahmed BANGLADESH 50 9 Crossing the Line of Temporality: A Refugee Camp in Dhaka Yasmin Ara A.K.M. Sirajuddin BANGLADESH BANGLADESH 58 LIVING PATTERN AND LIFE STYLES 10 Banter in the Basti: An Architectural Exploration of a Slum Using Informant Made Films Gauri Bharat SINGAPORE 65 11 Life Style and Living Pattern of the Jamdani Weavers - A Case of Government's Rehabilitation Scheme Bijon Bihari Sharma Rumana Asad BANGLADESH BANGLADESH 70 12 Politics of Housing in Bangladesh Dr. Mahbubur Rahman BANGLADESH 78 13 Man ignored: Case of a collapsed garments factory building in Dhaka Md. Ashikur Rahman Joarder BANGLADESH 88 INCOME GENERATION AND AFFORDABILITY 14 In Search of an Urban Regeneration Approach that Benefits the Poor S.Roy T.Sowgat Dr. Khan Rubayet Rahaman UK BANGLADESH BANGLADESH 97 15 Economically disadvantaged communities near the Sundarbans: A study on the changing income pattern Sheikh Serajul Hakim Sk. Kabir Ahmed BANGLADESH BANGLADESH 104 and its effect on household Sustainability SI. Paper title Author/s Country Page 16 Income Generating Training Program For poverty Alleviation: A Case Study Fariya Sharmeen Dr. Gulsan Ara Parvin BANGLADESH BANGLADESH 113 17 Pro-Poor Regeneration of Railway Market, Khulna Bangladesh T.Sowgat S.Roy BANGLADESH UK 118 POLICY AND PLANNING 18 Access to Housing for Disadvantaged Groups Using Affordable Standards of Services: A Study of Mudafa Slum in Tongi Pourashava Dr. Khan Rubayet Rahaman Md. Zakir Hossain Md. Ashiq-ur-Rahman Sadia Afrin BANGLADESH BANGLADESH BANGLADESH SWEDEN 126 19 Impacts of Slum Upgrading Projects on the Urbarn Poor: The case Slums in Khulna, Bangladesh Bushra Shamsad Sadah Shamsad CHINA BANGLADESH 134 20 Urban Mass Transportation of Chittagong and Potential of Present Rail Tracks Services Imon Chowdhooree Kanu Kumar Das BANGLADESH BANGLADESH 142 21 Infrastructure - Blessing or Curse: A Case for Improving Quality of Life TECHNICAL AND SPATIAL ASPECTS Arifa Akter Shumi BANGLADESH 150 I 22 Housing Development Trend in the Kathmandu Valley- need for sheltering urban poor Dr. Bijaya K. Shrestha NEPAL 157 23 Search for an Affordable Shelter for Urban poor Khairul Enam Md. Afzal Hossain BANGLADESH BANGLADESH 165 24 Building for common good: The idea and application of 'robust technology' for building production in Sri Lanka Milinda Pathiraja Paolo Tombesi AUSTRALIA AUSTRALIA 171 25 Design and construction of permanent low cost housing in Chakaria Upazila Salma A. Shafi BANGLADESH 181