Project: Commercial Waterfront Regeneration

This research project reasoned the evolution and declination of commercial waterfronts in different cities of the Bengal Delta South region and provided guidelines on how to regenerate these declined waterfronts in a sustainable approach and establish a public realm. Along with this Khulna Barobazar has been intensively surveyed and detailed analyzed, and research work has been carried out on the basis of the structure of Khulna Barobazar, as it is currently at its most preserved and complete state compared to other declined commercial waterfront.

RESEARCHURBAN DESIGN

Muhammad Golam Sami, Mahmuda Yasmin Dola, Shauni Priyam Shikder

8/5/20202 min read

·COMMERCIAL EVOLUTION OF WATERFRONT: A HISTORICAL ANALYSIS OF LAND USE PATTERN & TREND OF COMMERCIAL CENTERS IN KHULNA RESPECTING BAROBAZAR, KHULNA

DOI:10.31705/FARU.2020.19

Conference: 13TH FARU INTERNATIONAL RESEARCH CONFERENCE - FARU 2020
Location: University of Mortuwa, Sri Lanka
Author: Muhammad Golam Sami *, Shauni Priyam Shikder
Abstract: Although Khulna's actual history is not about more than 200 years, but it has a 2000 years settlement and commercial history. Khulna was a part of Ganaridai, Vanga, Jessore dynasty, Rarh (South Bengal) in different periods. The connection of rivers always made a blessing for Khulna for water transportation to accelerate trade and commerce. According to Ptolemy, the ancient Gangaridai had an ancient port located in greater Jessore [1,557]. Some archaic incidents, verses, and legends of Mani-Rishis (Ancient Indian Scholars) proved the old settlement and commercial style. The chronological evolution of the ancient Period (6 th century BC-1757 AD) described a civilization's development with the incremental commercial approach [2,315]. The colonial regime can relate to the evolution of a commercial and economic center like Barobazar as a whole. All these chronological narrations, consecutive phenomena, and influential factors will depict the trend of retail evolution. The research aims to describe Khulna's commercial development's sequential affairs and find the missing links between eras. Various ancient documents, Blueprints, Greek Periplus, etc. will describe the settlement, commercial mode, and history. It will determine the answer to the questions about the growth and establishment of river port cities and major economic centers' evolution. The paper will describe commercial-spatial progression in 4 Particular eras. GIS surveys and some old maps will illustrate the commercial land-use patterns of Barobazar from the Colonial Period to the present and the river base trade. These will elaborate on the existing conditions as well as the revolutionary changes. The fundamental research will help for the further Urban regeneration of Barobazar as a central economic hub. The historical consequences will help to sort out the development pattern and strategies behind the progression.

Related Publications

Published:

Manuscript Under Review:

·Regeneration of Urban Public Realm At Commercial Water Edge of Barobazar, Khulna: A Policy Making Approach for the Bengal Delta

Journal: Review of Regional Research, Springer Verlag

Work In Progress:

· A Regeneration Justification of the Commercial Waterfront of Barobazar Khulna Using Multiple Variable Regression Model of Space Syntax ( Data Collected in 2020, to be submitted for publication in spring 2024)

· A review of Performance Based Waterfront Regeneration Model: Design of the Urban Public Realm at Khulna Barobazar Waterfront ( Data Collected in 2020, to be submitted for publication in spring 2024)