Comparative analysis between urban kitchen market and super-shops - focus on proper return on investment (ROI) in sense of spatial utilization in the context Dhaka, Bangladesh

Abstract

Kitchen market that means traditional retail market has always been an integral component of everyday lifestyle for the people of Dhaka city, Bangladesh. Its importance is profusely intensified in urban areas. In topmost cases, the supplies of these markets are not manufactured in the urban areas. So the kitchen market performs as a connecting platform of several functions. In a broader sense, it remains directly connected to the overall annual economic growth of a nation. Through ages, the necessity of the kitchen market is perpetual whereas its envelope characteristics i.e. shape, size, pattern, spatial organization is changing. Experiencing several metamorphic phases, presently it is config.d in the form of super-shops. Along with the present trend of modern lifestyle, the number of super-shops is on the rise. At present the urban population is densifying. Simultaneously the number of super-shops is swallowing to meet the demand. But land is a precious limited resource in any urban area. Now the question arises whether the portion of land or space used by a community for super-shops functions or kitchen markets is meeting the proper return on investment (ROI). We need to know that which financial category of population is served by the existing traditional kitchen markets and the super-shops. The main objective of the research aims at finding out the spatial utilization of a traditional kitchen market and modern super-shops. Furthermore a comparative overview between these two would be presented. The end result o f t his research m ay lead u s t o k now w hether which one between these two types gives the more ROI and may prevail in the future. A quantitative research method of data analysis is used for the research.