2. Process of urbanisation (and urban
sprawl)
Thai Modernisation
? 1st National Economics and Social
Development Policy (NESDP), 1961
? Promoting the industrial /services
sector and employment (Keynesian
economics)
? Infrastructure, services and land
development
Uneven development
? Urban-rural disparity
? Fiscal distribution
? Bkk = 46,000 M. THB
? Chiang Mai = 1,169 M. THB
? Public health (physician-patient)
? BKK = 1: 700
? Others = 1: 5,000
? Education
? Push and Pull factors of migration
and become rapid urbanised
Bangkok
3. The causes of urban sprawl
? Land speculation
? Absence of land policy and sufficient regulatory framework
(i.e. Land and property tax, Land use, Enactment of the
comprehensive plan)
? Promoting the body of construction industry for GDP growth by
the state (contractors, financial institutes, consumption)
? Urban-rural economic disparity
? Unbalance in urban-industrial VS rural-agricultural
development policy
? Limit of decentralisation
? Poor function and authoritative power of local authorities to
control local/rehgional development (Bottle-neck in decision-making
chain)
? Too centralised in resource distribution (too bureaucratic
expenditure system)
4. The expansion of Bangkok 1850-
2002
Source: City Planning Department, BMA
5. Urbanisation and changes in Bangkok housing
patterns
Why ¡®Pseudo-urbanisation¡¯ in Bangkok?: Housing
provision
? Bangkok demands cheap labors to survive
competitive economy; those are still higher than
in rural
? The rights to land (as a mode of production)
? Malfunctioned in urban institutions : land and tax
policies/regulations
? Land monopoly and speculation
? Invasion into vacant public land
? Poor enactment of legislative functions
7. Evaluation of housing policies
Divided into six movements
? The absence of national housing policy : From
scattered instruments to NESDB (1940-1970)
? Fully-subsidized housing program (1975-1978): NHA
? Affordable housing program (1977-1981): NHA
? Market-oriented housing provision (1978-2003):
NESDB, NHA, GHB
? Slums upgrading program (1977-2002): NHA, UCDO
? Bilateral national housing policy and programs (2003-
present): NHA, CODI
8. The evolution in housing policy on the backdrop of Thai political
economy, leapfrog situation, and crisis
Slum
clearance
UCDO
CODI
Four pertinent
housing bureaus
NHA
1930 1950 1960 1970 1980 1990 2000 2010
1959: NESDB
1961: NESDP
1973: Establishing
NHA
Policy
instru
ment
area
Policy
igenerating
area
1982: NESDP¡¯s
Hosuing Sub-committee
2000: Thaksin
regime
1992: Black May¡¯s
coup d¡®etat
1997: Great
economic
recession
2006: Coup d¡¯¨¦tat
Absolute
Monarchy
1978: Internal aid in
housing
Military regime
and political
unrest
Bureacratic
polity Populism Democratic
reform
2009: Nation
Housing
PolicyCommittee
1985-88: social
development
movement
1985-88: Human rights
movement
Fully subsidized
housing
Housing provision projects and Baan Eua
Arthorn program
Affordable housing Slum Upgrading and Baan
Mankong Program
Source: Usavagovitwong, N. 2012. Successful Approaches to National Slum Upgrading and Prevention, Thailand, Report submited to the World Bank Institute