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BOOK OF ABSTRACTS 25th ISUF International Conference Krasnoyarsk 2018. 5-9 July Urban Form and Social Context: from traditions to newest demands Book of Abstracts. 25th ISUF International Conference: Urban Form and Social Context: from traditions to newest demands. Krasnoyarsk 2018, 5-9 July / ed. : I. Kukina, I. Fedchenko, Ia. Chui. – Krasnoyarsk : Sib. Feder. University, 2018. – 214 p. ISBN 978-5-7638-3952-4

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BOOK OF ABSTRACTS 25th ISUF International Conference Krasnoyarsk 2018. 5-9 July Urban Form and Social Context: from traditions to newest demands Book of Abstracts. 25th ISUF International Conference: Urban Form and Social Context: from traditions to newest demands. Krasnoyarsk 2018, 5-9 July / ed. : I. Kukina, I. Fedchenko, Ia. Chui. – Krasnoyarsk : Sib. Feder. University, 2018. – 214 p. ISBN 978-5-7638-3952-4

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ISUF 2018 XXV International conference: Urban Form and Social Context: from traditions to newest demands

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Topic of conference: Historical Urban Fabric

Historic Edifices of Ramna: An Embedded Heritage Route In Urban


Dhaka

Farzana Mir¹, Architect & Researcher, Elixir Architects, Dhaka, Bangladesh.


Fahmida Nusrat² , M.Arch Candidate, Department of Architecture, BUET, Dhaka-1213, Bangladesh.
e-mail: [email protected] , +8801712019736.
[email protected], +8801912641549.

Keywords: Historic Edifices, Ramna, Heritage route, Urban Dhaka, Space Syntax.

For a city that that started at the bank of a river, Dhaka shows a unique characteristic in
its urban development pattern. The 400 years old city in its historical timeline shifted
from the river towards the land giving preference to a certain area that is known as
Ramna. The history of Ramna began in 1608 with the Mughal. It comprised two
residential areas of the high officials of the Mughals. It once placed Mughal garden,
green open spaces, garden houses etc. The British cleared the jungle of Ramna and built
racecourse, boulevard for the elites to stroll in the evening. The planning of this area as
the civil station of the newly formed province of East Bengal and Assam in 1905 saw
construction of several edifices. It also witnessed the building of the first modern
architecture by Architect Mazharul Islam of Bangladesh. A walk started from the
mosque of Musa Khan tucked in between Curzon Hall and Shahidullah Hall towards the
Institute of Fine Arts of Dhaka University would take us from Mughal to Modern
Dhaka. The collections of buildings of Ramna from different historical phases tell the
story of the past in a synchronized manner. The study reveals a diverse historic route of
different timeline within the contemporary urban form of Dhaka.
Hence objective of this paper is to explore how the embedded connectivity of a historic
urban segment can be traced down with the help of space syntax analysis to define a
unique heritage route for future planning of the city.

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Krasnoyarsk, July, 5th-9th 2018, Institute of Architectural and Design, Siberian Federal University, Russian Federation
www.conf.sfu-kras.ru/isuf2018

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