Architecture

Dr. Maher Niger

Research Interests

• Urban Morphology
• Public Open Space
• Accessibility
• Urban Transport
• Ecology
• Green Network

Educational Background

• Ph.D, (Urban Design), Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology
• Master of Science (MSc), (Urban Planning And Management), University of Twente, The Netherlands
• Bachelor of Architecture (B.Arch), (Architecture), Ahsanullah University of Science and Technology

Honors and Achievements

• Erusmus Mundus mobility for Asia (EMMA) scholarship, EMMA, 2009

Publications

• The Revitalization of Farashgonj as a Cultural and Heritage Town, International Journal of Innovative Science and Research Technology, 2023
• Accessibility analysis of Green Network of Dhaka city: a syntactic approach, The 1st international online space syntax PhD conference, 2021
• Green Network for Dhaka City: Green Spaces as Network of Social Spaces for Health and Well-Being of Urban Residents, International Conference of Contemporary Affairs in Architecture and Urbanism (ICCAUA-2020), Alanya, Turkey, May 06-08, 2020, 2020
• Community based approaches to resilience: Response to vulnerability of coastal habitat in changing, International Conference on Disaster Risk Management, 2019
• Rationalizing Public Transport System of Dhaka City: Proposal of Creating a Multimodal Hierarchical Transport Network to Reduce Traffic Congestion, Nakhara: Journal of Environmental design and Planning, 2019
• Rationalizing public transport system: A Euro Asian perspective, 2019
• The Strategic Design Approaches for Chittagong Hill Areas to Reduce Risks of Landslides and Exploring the Opportunity of Tourism Development, Nakhara: Journal of Environmental design and Planning, 2017
• A Study of the Land Use Planning and Transportation Planning of Dhaka Region to Explore Possibilities of Transit Oriented Development, BDI International Conference “Bridging the Policy-Action Divide: Challenges and Prospects for Bangladesh, 2013
• Preserving urban roots: The case of Shakhari Bazar, Dhaka, Bangladesh, Nakhara: Journal of Environmental design and Planning, 2013
• Deficiencies of existing public transport system in Dhaka city and a proposal for integrated hierarchical network as an improvement options, IOSR Journal of Mechanical and Civil Engineering, 2013
• Transformation and changing trend of urban living spaces: A case of Dhaka city, Asian Journal of Applied Science and Engineering (AJASE), 2012
• Rationalizing public transport: a Euro - Asian perspective, 2011
• New Ideas for Architectureal Pedagogy Revealed, 2006
• Urban Landscape and Cultural Practices at Streets: Study on Place Attachment to the Shopping Streets of Dhaka, International Seminar on Urban Culture Arte-Polis: Creative Culture and the Making of Place, Bandung, 21-22 July 2006, 2006