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Recommendations from Multipurpose Cyclone Shelter Project applied to domestic buildings in Bangladesh.
Guidelines in Bengali, on how to construct houses in the Coastal Belt of Bangladesh.
This paper mainly deals with one particular technology applied to a critical part of a building: structural posts. The continuum originating from the supply constraints of bamboo, leading to the...
Housing is a more complex commodity than most economists realise. Safety and comfort are still the basic essentials for housing. Housing is a composite social good. There are single family houses...
These leaflets provide information in English and Bangladeshi showing how to build safely.
This paper deals specifically with issues pertaining to the improvement of kutcha housing (that is, houses made from bamboo, thatch and mud in which most of the population lives) in bangladesh....
This paper describes the management of disaster relief post the Orissa Cyclone.
The floods of 1987-88 and the cyclone of 1991 hammered the backbone of our national economy as well as our development. The 1988 flood alone destroyed about 1. 25 million houses and twice as many...
This paper looks at the ways in which housing schemes should be devised.
This paper seeks to show that upgradation of rural markets to growth centers, by providing necessary infrastructures, improves rural economy as a whole.