{"id":30227,"date":"2021-03-26T21:45:44","date_gmt":"2021-03-26T12:45:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2021\/mar\/26\/the-making-of-a-megacity-how-dhaka-transformed-in-50-years-of-bangladesh"},"modified":"2021-03-26T21:45:44","modified_gmt":"2021-03-26T12:45:44","slug":"the-making-of-a-megacity-how-dhaka-transformed-in-50-years-of-bangladesh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=30227","title":{"rendered":"The making of a megacity: how Dhaka transformed in 50 years of Bangladesh"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the half century since independence, the capital has grown from peaceful town to economic hub. But does it live up to the dreams of those still flocking to work there?<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2021\/mar\/26\/bangladesh-views-50-years-independence\">\u2018Bangladesh has come a long way\u2019: people of Dhaka on half a century of independence<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>On the banks of the Buriganga, Old Dhaka\u2019s boatmen only ever rest a moment before making their return journey, endlessly ferrying passengers back and forth across the river.<\/p>\n<p>They pick them up at the Sadarghat docks, the historical trading hub that helped build the city, and row them towards the sprawling suburbs that have crept across what used to be open farmland two decades ago.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2021\/mar\/26\/the-making-of-a-megacity-how-dhaka-transformed-in-50-years-of-bangladesh\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the half century since independence, the capital has grown from peaceful town to economic hub. But does it live up to the dreams of those still flocking to work there?\u2018Bangladesh has come a long way\u2019: people of Dhaka on half a century of independenc&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2039,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[327,217,218,59,1353,491,640,958,61,896,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30227","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bangladesh","category-cities","category-cities-and-development","category-global-development","category-inequality-and-development","category-migration","category-migration-and-development","category-poverty","category-south-and-central-asia","category-urbanisation","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30227","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2039"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30227"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30227\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30228,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30227\/revisions\/30228"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}