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The \u201cwild city\u201d is not forever. I still haven’t write enough about interesting of this city, it is time to wrap up the blog on “Dhaka, a city of wild”.<\/p>\n

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\u201cWild city\u201d has full of people.<\/h2>\n

Dhaka is overflowing with myriad people. Although the economy in Bangladesh is rapidly growing and its income inequality is increasing, the both people of rich and of not are living together in the center of the city, the both are doing various jobs. Like in Japan and the United States, modernization causes the expansion and sprawl of the city, empties out the city center or prioritizes rich while excludes not rich and then loses the vitality of city. In other words, the \u201cwild city\u201d must keep allowing diverse people.<\/p>\n

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\nDhaka Gulshan Circle 2.\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Photo in May 2019<\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u201cWild city\u201d repairs\u00a0old things and uses them up.<\/h2>\n

There are many worn-out buses running on the main road in Dhaka. Most are used ones imported from abroad. The various buses for example of double-decker type probably imported from Britain or Hong Kong and the standard type are imported from Japan and other countries are reused and painted in bright colors. The door is removed so that passengers can jump in while driving.<\/p>\n

Rickshaws are made by assembling various parts on the body of bicycles and motorcycles.<\/p>\n

The used cars, mainly from Japan originally of gasoline-powered, were boldly converted into a liquefied natural gas engine.<\/p>\n

These second-hand cultures of people remind us \u201cBricolage\u201d described in \u201cLa Pensee Sauvage\u201d by Claude L\u00e9vi-Strauss.<\/p>\n

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\nArterial Road in Dhaka, Showcase of various used Buses.\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Photo in March 2019<\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u201cWild City\u201d maintains the Culture of Hand-made Design.<\/h2>\n

At the construction site in Dhaka, concrete was casted out by hand and bricks were piled up one-by-one to build a wall.<\/p>\n

The sewing industry has been prevailing in Bangladesh for a long time. Many international companies of apparel and fashion are expanding their factories to Bangladesh in search for cheap and high-quality labor of “human-wave tactics”. Each hand-made work has its own personality and humanity. Our world is surrounded by an inorganic design created by computers and machines. The “wild city” teach us the nobility of making things by our own hands.<\/p>\n

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\nThe purse bought for local currency at an airport souvenir shop. Although a lot of same fish design were displayed at the shop, because all are handmade, every purse is not exactly same. Each has a unique personality and a sense of crude but charm or cute.<\/p>\n

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\u201cWild city\u201d is a Utopia of Water and Green.<\/h2>\n

Bangladesh is rich in water and greenery with long rain season and the entire country, including Dhaka, locates in the delta zone. Dhaka spreads out the patches of lakes or ponds probably formed by damming tributaries. Furthermore, the ample water resources nourish full of green in the city. The abundance of water and greens cool down the temperature of the burning town of Dhaka and prevent urban warming. Luxury houses are lined around the lake something like an oasis. The problem is about hygiene. The domestic wastewater is drained off, the trash is floating and, as a result, the water smells badly. The lake turns to mosquito farm. Some local residents are WILDLY fishing in such the lake to eat the fish. If the water is purified and circulated and its land is maintained as park, Dhaka will revitalize as cleaner city of water and green.<\/p>\n

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\nDhaka Gulshan Lake, Luxury houses and hotels are lined around the lake.\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Photo in May 2019<\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u201cWild city\u201d enjoys Freedom.<\/h2>\n

The first freedom is about movement. In Dhaka, rickshaws, cars, and motorcycles can freely move around the city and freely park at the destinations. Although there is the chaos due to no traffic lights and heavy traffic, but the freedom of movement is the first requirement for vibrant city.<\/p>\n

The second freedom is about dwelling. On the rooftop of the hotel where I stayed, employees built shelters by themselves to live. This is the ultimate proximity to work and residence.<\/p>\n

The third freedom is about the mind. In \u201cwild city\u201d humans are not tamed. Demonstration happens weekly. Bangladesh does not seem to be a class society like India, and both men and women of various backgrounds work freely in the same workplace. In this aspect, Bangladesh can be said as a democratic society. Although most of the people in Bangladesh are Muslims, therefore they live according to its strict doctrines, they wildly enjoys their freedom. On the other hand, the people who are \u201ctamed\u201d to live \u201cwell-behaved\u201d and controlled by \u201cself-responsibility\u201d and \u201ccompliance\u201d might enjoy lesser freedom than people who lives in \u201cwild city\u201d.<\/p>\n

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\nFree markets are open all over the city.\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Photo in March 2019<\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u201cWild city\u201d is not forever.<\/h2>\n

The lively sceneries in Dhaka showing in the blog are ephemeral phenomenon. As other cities experienced, the more modernized, industrialized, globalized and capitalized the city is, the weaker the power of \u201cwild city\u201d is, although there is a difference of its degree. The city of beautiful and human has life and the life is limited. We were completely \u201ctamed\u201d and lost the \u201cwild mind\u201d. Rather than nostalgically adoring to the powerful life of \u201cwild city\u201d, can we awaken the \u201cnew wild mind\u201d and find out the way to \u201cvividly\u201d live, work, study and play in our current city again?<\/p>\n

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\nGoats will be halal processed as meat. The \u201cWild City\u201d has various episodes about life and death.\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Photo in October 2019<\/p>\n

Hiroyuki Niino<\/p>\n

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