The Impacts of Environmental Amenities and Recreational Sites on Sustainable Human Life in Rajshahi City, Bangladesh

Environmental amenities and recreational sites are the blessing of nature that promote sustainable urban life through raising living standard quality of urban residents. This study is an effort to assess the impact of environmental amenities and recreational sites on urban human life. For achieving research objectives primary data was obtained through a simple random survey conducted on 400 in-house residents of Rajshahi City. The data was analyzed in terms of frequency, percentage, graph chart and likert scale measurements for getting result according to research demand. The survey reveals that the Padma River was most picturesque and relaxing place to 73.25% of the respondents. Regarding social cases the presence of environmental facilities community wellbeing (84% respondents’ opinion) and social network (66% respondents’ opinion) has increased while social crime (76% respondents’ opinion) has decreased. Availability such amenities prevent chronic diseases (76% respondents’ opinion) and promotes mental health (89% respondents’ opinion) along with longevity of life (76.75% respondents’ opinion). A high percentage of respondents agreed that these amusement sites create employment (66% respondents’ opinion) and develop infrastructure (77% respondents’ opinion) and local business (70% respondents’ opinion). Cultural enrichment including preservation cultural heritage (26% respondents’ opinion), fostering cultural festival (33% respondents’ opinion), cultural views exchange (23% respondents’ opinion) have occurred while environmental pollution including noise (76% respondents ‘opinion), land (66% respondents’ opinion), and water (86% respondents’ opinion) and air pollution (83% respondents’s opinion) have remarkably reduced due to these amusement sites in the study area. Finally, this study proposes that upgrading recreational spaces, preservation of cultural heritages, integrating green infrastructure, health programs in green places, more recreational sites, public-private partnership, community engagement help to foster inclusive, comfortable and sustainable urban life