"A collection of papers based on the Sub-regional Workshop on Urban Research in Bangladesh and Sri Lanka, organized by the Centre for Urban Studies, Dhaka, and held at the Planning and Development Academy, Dhaka, June 23-25, 1992 as part of the project on Urban Research in the Developing World, coordinated by the Centre for Urban and Community Studies, University of Toronto, Canada, and funded by the Ford Foundation, New York"--P. facing t.p.