GWR
28-01-06, 11:00 PM
How to bring up the subject of slums:-
http://www.asiasource.org/asip/housinglanguage.cfm
Derived from:-
http://www.achr.net/
Plus a link to some of the projects self-initiated by railway, canal, and underbridge communities:-
http://www.achr.net/Countries/Thailand/Ban%20Mankong/BMK%202005.htm
THAILAND
Fifty years ago, Bangkok was a city of wooden houses, squelchy bogs, rickety boardwalks and muddy klongs, just like the rest of this very watery country. A little embarrassed of its humble, pre-urban past, the glitzy modern urban Thailand tends to stigmatize what is old, small and wooden, and glorify what is new, huge and concrete. The word chumchon (community) is a little vague - it doesn’t necessarily mean poor or run-down, doesn’t necessarily mean illegal. Chumchon bukruk (illegal community) is the old term used by government officials for illegal squatter settlement, but people never used it. Chumchon bukberk (pioneering community) is a term people preferred, since it puts a more upbeat light on the process of informal settling. These two terms, or simply chumchon, were the terms in commun use until 1982, when the National Housing Authority adopted the more descriptive and less political Chumchon Aai-aat (crowded community) as the official government term.
http://www.asiasource.org/asip/housinglanguage.cfm
Derived from:-
http://www.achr.net/
Plus a link to some of the projects self-initiated by railway, canal, and underbridge communities:-
http://www.achr.net/Countries/Thailand/Ban%20Mankong/BMK%202005.htm
THAILAND
Fifty years ago, Bangkok was a city of wooden houses, squelchy bogs, rickety boardwalks and muddy klongs, just like the rest of this very watery country. A little embarrassed of its humble, pre-urban past, the glitzy modern urban Thailand tends to stigmatize what is old, small and wooden, and glorify what is new, huge and concrete. The word chumchon (community) is a little vague - it doesn’t necessarily mean poor or run-down, doesn’t necessarily mean illegal. Chumchon bukruk (illegal community) is the old term used by government officials for illegal squatter settlement, but people never used it. Chumchon bukberk (pioneering community) is a term people preferred, since it puts a more upbeat light on the process of informal settling. These two terms, or simply chumchon, were the terms in commun use until 1982, when the National Housing Authority adopted the more descriptive and less political Chumchon Aai-aat (crowded community) as the official government term.