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The Motorcycle Taxi Driver As A Community Reporter: Guidelines For The Promotion Of A Marginalized Group's Participation In The Improvement Of Public Space By Using Information And Communication Technology, Nattapong Punnoi
NAKHARA (Journal of Environmental Design and Planning)
Motorcycle taxi drivers are a group of laborers in the informal sector who are socially shunned and are often harassed by the authorities and local infl uential people. Research has found that motorcycletaxi drivers have the potential to gather information concerning problems occurring in public spaces to be compiled into a database to encourage problem solving. Furthermore, smartphones are found to be a tool that assists motorcycle taxi drivers in effectively collecting information relating to problems that they encounter. Thus, the researcher, in collaboration with motorcycle taxi driver groups, has developed key concepts and an Information and Communication Technology (ICT) …
Sustaining Urban Spatial Network Of Historical Communities Through The Reuse Of Temple Grounds And Social Space - A Case Study Of Rattanakosin, Bangkok, Khaisri Paksukcharern
Sustaining Urban Spatial Network Of Historical Communities Through The Reuse Of Temple Grounds And Social Space - A Case Study Of Rattanakosin, Bangkok, Khaisri Paksukcharern
NAKHARA (Journal of Environmental Design and Planning)
Old communities in Rattanakosin, a historical center of Bangkok, have been the model of a vibrant mix-use urban area where residences, temples, schools and local retailers are clustered in close proximity.The Rattanakosin area has distinctive spatial characteristics hardly found in other areas of Bangkok; small urban blocks, a dense grid network for pedestrian only, and a large number of Buddhist temples well integrated within communities. The mapping of space usage reveals how local inhabitants, as well as tourists, interact within a series of public open spaces. How this interaction differs at various times and activities are in fact spatially related. …
Amphibian Identity?Waterspatial Resilience Of Khlong In Bangkok, Benjamin Casper
Amphibian Identity?Waterspatial Resilience Of Khlong In Bangkok, Benjamin Casper
NAKHARA (Journal of Environmental Design and Planning)
More than 1.100 khlong1in Bangkok offer various opportunities for urban development. Over 2.200 km still exist in the Province of Bangkok alone. Transport and living space onthe water are foundonly along certain parts of the system as khlong are predominantly used as open sewage, drainage and irrigation system. The particular urban structure creates complementary spaces that interface water with land. This article aims to understand the logic of structural elements of Bangkok in the Chao Phraya Delta of Thailand and to change the viewpoint, to look from the water to the city. To understand the researchapproach better the water space, …
Modernitiesand Memoriesin Bangkok, Brian Mcgrath
Modernitiesand Memoriesin Bangkok, Brian Mcgrath
NAKHARA (Journal of Environmental Design and Planning)
Wat Pathumwanaram, a green oasis in the heart of the newly redevelopedCentral Shopping District of Bangkok, represents not only a repositoryof cultural memory within this modern corner of the city, but also bearswitness previous episodes of historical modernities and memories inThailand. It is the purpose of this paper to juxtapose modernity and memory ascoupled concepts which continually interact in space and time. Memory is animportant concept of modernity outlined here through the concepts of 19thcentury French philosopher Henri Bergson, and modernity has developed itsown memories, especially in this particular area of Bangkok where so manyhistorical forms of modernity have found …
Bangkok Boundaries Social Networksin The City Of Mubahnchatsan, Bart Wissink, Renske Dijkwel, Ronald Meijer
Bangkok Boundaries Social Networksin The City Of Mubahnchatsan, Bart Wissink, Renske Dijkwel, Ronald Meijer
NAKHARA (Journal of Environmental Design and Planning)
Bangkok is rapidly transforming into a city of Mubahnchatsan, the Thaiversion of the gated community of which the inhabitants belong to thesame income group. In the vast urban field of this city, new mubahnchatsanfor various income groups are built at an incredible rate. As such, Bangkok isyet another example in a range of cities where gated living is becoming thenorm instead of an exception. Urban studies literature gives these gated com-munities a bad press. Walls and gates are said to create exclusionary spacesthat physically separate the lives of the 'haves' and the 'have-nots'. The publicsphere is undermined because these groups …