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Ethics and Professionalism in Planning Practice: An Experience from Dhaka

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Ethical and professional dimensions of planning practice deal with the art and science of urban planning, in its many aspects. Ethics in planning are the values, standards, and philosophies that planners live by. Ethical planning helps planners establish codes of professional behaviors, and collectively ethics which translated into institutional, government policies and programs. In Dhaka, planning practitioners struggle with three priorities, i.e. environmental protection, economic development and social equity in the context of a fast paced urbanization and limited resources. In this chapter, we explore how the ethical issues of planning were perceived by the professionals, academics, civil society, media, government and politicians during the preparation, monitoring and implementation of Detailed Area Plan (DAP) of Dhaka Metropolitan Area.

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    In Bangladesh land parcel maps are known as Mouza maps. Mouza is the lowest level of aerial unit of land since Mughal period in Bangladesh. Every land parcel belongs to one Mouza and larger mouzas have two more sheets to cover all the land parcels belongs to map.

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Acknowledgements

We would like to thank all our colleagues from academic institutes, professional bodies and civil society organization who worked tirelessly with us during the time of movement against the proposed Draft DAP. We would also like to thank Dr. Afsana Haque who is maintaining the depository of all things related with DAP.

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  1. Department of Urban and Regional Planning, Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology, Dhaka, Bangladesh

    Shakil Akther & Ishrat Islam

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  1. Department of Geosciences, Missouri State University, West Plains, MO, USA

    Rajiv R. Thakur

  2. Department of Geography and Planning, The University of Akron, Akron, OH, USA

    Ashok K. Dutt

  3. Department of Finance, Insurance and Real Estate, College of Business Administration, California State University, Sacramento, CA, USA

    Sudhir K. Thakur

  4. Department of Geography-Earth Science, Shippensburg University, Shippensburg, PA, USA

    George M. Pomeroy

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Akther, S., Islam, I. (2020). Ethics and Professionalism in Planning Practice: An Experience from Dhaka. In: Thakur, R., Dutt, A., Thakur, S., Pomeroy, G. (eds) Urban and Regional Planning and Development. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-31776-8_25

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