Access to water quantifies the spatial development of the integrity of street structures in the built environment. In addition, revealing the spatial values of residual water bodies could rapidly evolve the space integrity with the diversity of street patterns. Conversely, the spatial segregation of the developing city is enrooted in the spatial inequity of the grid system. One of the contemporary challenges for future urban planning and design is how to deal with fragmentation of the urban footprint, or segregated territory, and the role of public open space. So, the process or result of spatial movement for raising the spatial values of social, economic, and environmental structures is the coming together of urban structures and the slowing down of urban growth in a modern city. Emerging cities are rapidly transforming into a volume of urbanization by way of inequity of space, which reproduces social inequity of access. Public spaces are declining because of the spatial integrity of urban and periurban resources in the city. Water is one of them, which is spatially ignored in the process of urbanization in developing cities to link with people. As a result, it turns into a serious spatial crisis of water in the growing contemporary city. Water bodies are being concealed in the space due to a lack of spatial development of movements. The incomplete definition of space and accessibility severely disrupts the flow of space. It also raises the question of how space could continuously flow with the concept of liquid urbanity. The answer to the study could be about how the flow of space is diversely linked to its resources and structures. However, this research is looking at the pragmatic reaction to the spatial configuration of space and its spatial dynamics regarding the diversity of axial patterns in water.
Dr G M A Balayet Hossain is an accomplished Associate Professor in the Department of Architecture at AUST, Dhaka. He is a fellow member of the Bangladesh Institute of Planners and a member of the Institute of Architects Bangladesh.