Cities are losing heritage values

Abstract

The aim of the research paper is to focus on the diminishing ‘heritage values’ of the city which causes impact on human intellect. Whilst city is a multipart of its inherent traditional and historic manners. With the rapid pace of urbanization, cities in the South East Asia are losing its rooted cultural heritage, the consequences of this trailing; inhabitants or the city dwellers are disappearing their memories and images of their own locale. That eventually causes unfilled to belong with the time, place and memory. City has its own distinctiveness everywhere in the world. Delta-hinterland Bangladesh is no exception from them; the country is dotted with enormous ancient and historic settlements. Some are completely dilapidated by the natural and man-made disasters, some are keep hold of as the ruins and few of them are still remain as the identical historic districts. The historic districts of a city are running down by the negligence of the city authority, inattentiveness, lack of maintenance and lastly the policies statements. The paper would deeply focus on a particular historic city Rajshahi, Northern part of Bangladesh, where the historic morphology of the town has disgraced the values of heritage in a short period of time. Through the Timeline analysis this dilapidation could be seen. On the other hand, the paper would address the meaning of image of a place that communally praises the personal understanding. Finally, urbanization is the necessity, everyone should appraise this phenomenon, however on the other hand the traditional values and cultural heritage of a locality or a city remain unique and it clarifies the area’s dignity and entity. It gives a good memories and understanding of own imaged territory.