Mahmudur Rahman Khan

Ecological City Building: a Movement Towards an Eco-friendly City Mahmudur Rahman Khan

Over last few decades human interruption on nature has become so astonishing and abrupt that the impacts inconveniently remind the picture of a doomed city, which was once the heart of civilization, to whom who really care about. But this horrible image can be scratched out by avoiding energy dominating development practices and can be converted to a divine living system. The idea of ecocity is to convey present development practice to a healthier future. It is like a dream that might be possible in reality where someone will wake up from bed hearing the twitter of birds and not by the horn of vehicles and cool air for air conditioning, he will be able to reach his working place with pleasant even in a walking distance from his house and without facing serious congestion while it is far away, he will find it more attractive to walk than to use vehicles where he will find someone reading news paper in a natural air conditioned system sitting under a tree on a bench besides pedestrian path and so on. An attempt has been taken to find out the way of fulfilling the dream in reality; some basic needs of eco friendly city building and how they could be attained are explored in this book