| Title |
Tracing the Path of Growing Bangkok: - Changing Urban Form from Canal Port into Multi-centered Metropolis |
| Authors |
한광야(Han, GwangYa) ; 신재영(Shin, Jaeyoung) ; 하성현(Ha, Sunghyun) |
| DOI |
https://doi.org/10.38195/judik.2020.12.21.6.49 |
| Keywords |
방콕; 도시성장; 운하; 항구; 철도; 트램; 고가철도; 지하철 Bangkok; City Growth; Canal; Port; Railroad; Tram; Monorail; Metro |
| Abstract |
This paper aims to address the development characteristics of multi-centered Bangkok, a historic port city in the Thai Peninsula, by tracing the path of growing city form and the transportation systems. By doing so, it argues that the expansion of Bangkok has been significantly directed by a set of three transportation frameworks and the associated developments: the ancient town of river-canal network with castle-temple-market; the old town of port-railroad-tramway with the public and commercials-church community; and new city of a monorail-metro system with shopping and hotel. This expansion process in Bangkok shows the followings: (1) multiple development bases in the metropolitan area with imbalanced urban development concentrated in the east of the river; (2) predominant commercial and hotel establishments by corporate developers in cooperation with the public transportation development; (3) redefinition of pedestrian movement system anchored on the elevated public platform. The findings call for both city planning and design actions for Bangkok that have experienced the increased segregation of the ancient and old communities from the new developments, and disconnection between mutually independent transportation nodes caused by the modern transportation system. |