BANGKOK’S URBAN SPRAWL: LAND FRAGMENTATION AND CHANGES OF PERI-URBAN VEGETABLE PRODUCTION AREAS IN THAWI WATTHANA DISTRICT
Agricultural lands are heavily affected by urban sprawl. Urbanization therefore plays a significant role in changing megacities’ agricultural fringes such as in Bangkok’s peri-urban vegetable production areas. This study focuses on the prime vegetable production areas in Bangkok and aims to: 1)...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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University of Bucharest
2022-02-01
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| Series: | Journal of Urban and Regional Analysis |
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| Online Access: | https://www.jurareview.ro/resources/pdf/volume_33_bangkok's_urban_sprawl:_land_fragmentation_and_changes_of_peri-urban_vegetable_production_areas_in_thawi_watthana_district_abstract.pdf |
| Summary: | Agricultural lands are heavily affected by urban
sprawl. Urbanization therefore plays a significant role in
changing megacities’ agricultural fringes such as in Bangkok’s
peri-urban vegetable production areas. This study focuses on
the prime vegetable production areas in Bangkok and aims
to: 1) understand and determine the land use changes to these
areas, 2) clarify the landscape configurations of these areas to
assess landscape fragmentation, 3) discuss and recommend
land use planning policies and measures to conserve the
existing peri-urban agricultural landscape. We use a geo-
graphic information system (GIS) database and three thematic
map layers (land use, waterways, and roads) to analyze and
clarify land use proportions, changes in the vegetable
production areas, and the land configurations during different
periods from 1976 to 2015. The fragmentation of the vegetable
production matrix increased due to the immediate effect of the
expanded road network construction and due to a later
consequence of the contiguous roadside urban development.
The remaining vegetable production areas were mostly away
from the primary road leading to the Bangkok centre city. The
monitoring system on the fragmentation of agricultural lands
is essential as a database to find suitable measures to control
urban sprawl in various cities. |
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| ISSN: | 2067-4082 2068-9969 |