Inclusion and Exclusion of the Urban Poor in Dhaka: Power, Politics, and Planning

Inclusion and Exclusion of the Urban Poor in Dhaka explores how the inhabitants of poor neighborhoods in Dhaka, Bangladesh, gain inclusion in the city at the face of exclusion. The book considers how the people of poor neighborhoods encounter the exclusionary behavior of city development, and how their inclusionary attempts have influenced the urban design.

The book is presented in two parts: first, it explains how people in poor neighborhoods face exclusion because of the imbalance of power...