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Guidelines in Bengali, on how to construct houses in the Coastal Belt of Bangladesh.
These leaflets provide information in English and Bangladeshi showing how to build safely.
This paper mainly deals with one particular technology applied to a critical part of a building: structural posts. The continuum originating from the supply constraints of bamboo, leading to the...
Housing is a more complex commodity than most economists realise. Safety and comfort are still the basic essentials for housing. Housing is a composite social good. There are single family houses...
The floods of 1987-88 and the cyclone of 1991 hammered the backbone of our national economy as well as our development. The 1988 flood alone destroyed about 1. 25 million houses and twice as many...
This paper seeks to show that upgradation of rural markets to growth centers, by providing necessary infrastructures, improves rural economy as a whole.
This study describes the role of women in repairing and maintaining their houses and how education can help them to create more resilient housing.
This paper provides ethnographic data about the inclusion of sanitation systems within houses in Bangladesh.
This report describes data collected in Bangladesh amongst the low-income groups regarding their housing situations.
The study aims to investigate the process leading to the vulnerable housing pattern of th elow income rural and urban community