| Author | Sukumaporn Jongpukdee |
| Call Number | AIT Thesis no.UE-00-04 |
| Subject(s) | Open spaces--Thailand--Bangkok--Environmental aspects
Trails--Thailand--Bangkok--Environmental aspects
|
| Note | A thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of
Master of Science, School of Environment, Resources and Development.
|
| Publisher | Asian Institute of Technology |
| Abstract | The basic unit of a city is a neighborhood. A neighborhood environment is an
important domain of the quality of life. Good neighborhood environments enhance
life's satisfaction, and the individual's overall sense of well being. It also supports
effective and efficient improvement of physical and moral health of neighborhood'
inhabitants; therefore, it must be well designed and well maintain. The most
significant neighborhood environment is open space that includes street. The study
aims at exploring the present mechanisms and present rehabilitation processes and to
recommend suitable mechanisms and processes in a neighborhood rehabilitation
program in which neighborhood's citizens play a role of professional about life in the
community, while professionals play a crucial role of technical support and feasibility
of such rehabilitation program.
Khlong Chan Residential Estate is a government-built neighborhood that has
been housed low and middle-income people of Bangkok since 1953. The physical
environments especially open space and footpaths have been deteriorating and
dilapidating. The daily need of inhabitants for having recreational space near their
accommodation was not met. Additionally, the encroachment of the footpaths by
some neighborhood's residents for operating their businesses causes difficulties for
walking pedestrians especially children, elderly and disabled people.
Responsible government agencies have been cooperating with community
organizations to relocate street vendors and rehabilitate the open space and footpaths.
However, the process is very slow. Furthermore, the rehabilitation program did not
effectively involve all of the inhabitants-especially tenants, which is now half of the
neighborhood's residents, in the process resulting the dissatisfied-product and absence
of commitment from the inhabitants to maintain the rehabilitation's outcome. The low
management skills of the community organizations' members and ineffective
corporation among government agencies are among the reasons. It was also found that
different types of inhabitants have different needs and preferences towards the open
space and footpaths development especially children.
Hence, the provision of training in management skills for community
organizations' members is recommended. The establishment of tenants'
representative at community organization's level is introduced to involve all of the
inhabitants in the rehabilitation process. In addition, the establishment of the
"Advisory for Neighborhood Rehabilitation" is initiated to assist community's people
in planning and designing aspect. The rehabilitation programs should be arranged in
series of workshops to gather requirements and desires of each peer group of the
inhabitants. Eventually, it needed integrated programs that are the environmental
campaigns, good physical design and good rehabilitation process to enhance good
open space and footpaths of this community. |
| Year | 2001 |
| Type | Thesis |
| School | School of Environment, Resources, and Development (SERD) |
| Department | Department of Development and Sustainability (DDS) |
| Academic Program/FoS | Urban Environmental and Management (UE) |
| Chairperson(s) | Jamieson, Walter |
| Examination Committee(s) | Zimmermann, Willi ;Yongtanit Pimonsathean
|
| Scholarship Donor(s) | Canadian International Development Agency/
Asian Institute of Technology-Canadian
Universities Consortium/Partnership Project
(CIDA/ AIT-CUC/PP)
Asian Institute of Technology
National Housing Authority, Thailand
|
| Degree | Thesis (M.Sc.) - Asian Institute of Technology, 2001 |
