Adnan Zillur Morshed

Teaching history has always been tricky. I have been examining how history is taught in architecture programmes in Bangladeshi

Urban planners need to see the disenfranchised classes not as the poor but as fellow human beings who deserve, like anybody else, basic access to all urban amenities and social institutions.

It is no longer news that Dhaka has earned the infamy of being one of the world's most unliveable cities and “worst vacation spots.” We have become accustomed to hearing Dhaka's moniker, the “traffic capital of the world,” in different global media. Every time the city's alleged urban dysfunction is in the news, local social-media reactions are typically three-pronged.

A few years ago, I attended a book launch event for Gary Bass's The Blood Telegram (2013) at the Martin Luther King Jr.

The month of December in Bangladesh is a time of remembrance and reflection. The country's independence in that month in 1971 was followed by a yearning to memorialise the heroism and sacrifice of the freedom fighters.

This is one of those questions with a zillion possible answers. An insightful consideration of the question, however, might begin by making a critical distinction between “stopping” and “reducing.” City design alone can't stop terrorism. Terror can strike any city, any time. Recent examples include Istanbul, Paris, Orlando, and Dhaka, among other cities. Terrorists often figure out new ways of breaching security barriers.

As we continue to mourn the helpless victims of the terrorist attack at Holey Artisan Bakery in Gulshan, I keep looking at

I am intrigued by the common history of massacre that Armenians and Bangladeshis share, and how this history, in many ways, shapes the national personality of these two peoples. More fascinating yet that Dhaka presents a robust Armenian history.

Cities are by nature messy. Unless they are Brasilia, Chandigarh or Myanmar's gaudy new capital Naypyidaw, cities grow organically...

The idea of dividing the Bangladesh capital into two cities should no longer be considered radical. Indeed, we should begin to incubate this idea in our political and administrative heads.

The sooner we realize that Dhaka's traffic congestion is not a problem of transportation engineering alone the better. This is also a problem of culture. It is much more than a result of broken bureaucracy, inadequate infrastructure, and ad-hoc planning.

After a hot day in May 2014, it was well past midnight when Aleya Begum brought her two-day-old baby boy to the Chittagong Medical College Hospital (CMCH).

The mayoral elections in Dhaka and Chittagong have generated two types of interest.