aspirations
2024
Graduate Thesis
University of Michigan
What aspirations inform the development of secondary urban centers of the developing world- at the intersection of geography, governance, power and polity?
Much like other economically developing nations, Bangladesh has also been racing to drive urbanism away from its major cities- prompting a series of decentralization intiatives. These moves often invite the overlap between urbanity and unique geographic territories- threatening the latter.
One such condition is found in the largest marshy depression of the country where a municipality is fast developing, in spite of its population beginning to plateau.
Singra Municipality is not only contending with the consequences of its concretizing model of urbanism- best encountered in the erratic behavior of its many receding water bodies. Furthermore, it must now determine what models and mechanisms of development it will adopt for its future- in the face of a population soon to decline, and a climate that is fast deteriorating.
municipality is fast developing, in spite of its population beginning to plateau.
Singra Municipality is not only contending with the consequences of its concretizing model of urbanism- best encountered in the erratic behavior of its many receding water bodies. Furthermore, it must now determine what models and mechanisms of development it will adopt for its future- in the face of a population soon to decline, and a climate that is fast deteriorating Using the existing proposal of a library and museum as a premise, this thesis pivots