- Neighborhood relationship measurement between newcomer and former inhabitants in sprawl areas of Bangkok Metropolitan Region: the case of Nonthaburi and Pathumthani province, Thailand   click here to open paper content744 kb
by    Klinmalai, Siwaporn & Kanki, Kiyoko | sklinmalai@gmail.com   click here to send an email to the auther(s) of this paper
Short Outline
Nonthaburi and Pathumthani province are experiencing a dramatically high
population
growth among five vicinity areas of the Bangkok metropolitan region with an
uncontrollable
growth of population. This condition has impacted different land use
transformations and
also affected different neighborhood relationships between the former
village inhabitant in
an agricultural area and the newcomer in a new residential area.
Abstract
Bangkok Metropolitan Region (BMR) faced impact of sprawl situation
spreading in large
scale, and land use has rapidly transformed, changing from agriculture to
urbanization and
dose of new residential projects. This transformation conduces to
livelihood problems
between newcomer and former villagers. The study has conducted with site
survey and
questionnaire distribution. After empirical study and review literature in
study area in
Nonthaburi and Pathumthani was investigated, the positive and negative
impact of different
land use transformation was revealed. The results can propose idea to
improve new housing
project in the future.
Keywords
village sprawl population
Case Study presented on the ISOCARP Congress 2013: Frontiers of Planning - Evolving and declining models of city planning practice
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