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A Kolorob youth facilitator spreads the word in the Dhaka neighbourhood of Bauniabadh. www.kolorob.info

July 13, 2017

Platform co‑ops offer urban communities a bigger say in their lives

Liam Magee, Western Sydney University; David Sweeting, Western Sydney University, and Teresa Swist, Western Sydney University

A co-operative project that maps services in Dhaka shows how communities of citizens can be more than passive users of the digital platforms that increasingly shape our daily lives.

Cities like Dhaka are internally diverse, even contradictory. Such variation extends to the types of economic activity that take place in them. Reuters/Andrew Biraj

October 19, 2016

Design in the ‘hybrid city’: DIY meets platform urbanism in Dhaka’s informal settlements

Teresa Swist, Western Sydney University; David Sweeting, Western Sydney University, and Liam Magee, Western Sydney University

As cities trumpet their liveability, creativity and greenness, many informal settlement activities are often relegated to the shadows.

Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh, is one of the fastest-growing cities in the world despite its ranking as one of the ‘least liveable’. mariusz kluzniak/flickr

June 10, 2016

Signals from the noise of urban innovation in the world’s ‘second‑least‑liveable’ city

Teresa Swist, Western Sydney University; David Sweeting, Western Sydney University, and Liam Magee, Western Sydney University

Bringing significant benefits to an emergent middle class, Dhaka’s cultural, economic, environmental and political landscapes are being rapidly but unevenly transformed.

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