‘City of Desire: An Urban Biography of the Largest Slum in Bangladesh’ by Dr Tanzil Shafique

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Through a detailed case study of Karail, the largest informal settlement in Bangladesh, the book offers ground-breaking insights into the production of informal urbanism through a brand-new approach rooted in deep ethnography and spatial mapping, cross-cutting international development, urban studies, sociology, and architecture.

A talk by Dr Tanzil Shafique on his new book, ‘City of Desire: An Urban Biography of the Largest Slum in Bangladesh’ as part of our Welsh School of Architecture, Cardiff University Urbanism Research and Scholarship group guest lecture series.

City of Desire, which has a foreword by AbdouMaliq Simone, was published by Bloomsbury (London, Nov 2024).