Four hundred years of developing, shifting and changing marks the city of Dhaka with a strong culture heritage. Traditional hierarchies and organic spatial structures form a rich mix of indigenous morphology, which is obvious in historically famous and organically developed bazaar streets and commercial interfaces. The urban development of Dhaka city is well known for its spatial structure. A ‘space syntax’ technique is used to understand the structure, function, underlying logic, morphological growth and evolution of the urban systems. This article focuses on both the spatial dynamics of the urban structure and on the spatial nature of the bazaar streets (commercial networks) and aims to explicate the notion of the configurational analysis of urban growth. By determining the syntactic pattern and evolution of the bazaar streets, this analysis can be usefully applied to designing for future urban growth.