Greater Bangkok: A Solution Proposal for its Urban Governance Effectiveness

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Published: Jun 30, 2024
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Greater Bangkok Urban Governance Urban Sprawl Public Policy Thailand

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Veerayuth Chokchaimadoln
Institute of Public Administration and Public Policy, Rangsit University

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         This paper reviews and asserts whether BMA should expand to cover the neighboring provinces as districts and become Greater Bangkok with more uniformity and more effective administrative governance. Bangkok Metropolitan Administration (BMA) has been facing the problem of urban sprawl including population density, traffic congestion, air pollution, waste management, infrastructure-related issues. Those burdens arise from five major Bangkok’s neighboring provinces that are under regional administration separate from BMA.
          The author studied to propose that to succeed in managing the metropolitan and ensure uniform effective public services, the governance of Bangkok Metropolitan should expand to cover its neighboring provinces: Pathum Thani, Nonthaburi, Samut Prakan, Samut Sakhon and Nakhon Pathom, and become Greater Bangkok. The proposed Greater Bangkok has two-tier management: Upper Tier of Executive Board and Lower Tier of provincial governing management. The Two-Tier government has two phases, the first starting in 2025 for five years and the second in 2030.

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Chokchaimadoln, V. . (2024). Greater Bangkok: A Solution Proposal for its Urban Governance Effectiveness. International Journal of Development Administration Research, 7(1), 59–72. retrieved from https://so02.tci-thaijo.org/index.php/ijdar/article/view/267599
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Vol. 7 No. 1 (2024): January - June 2024
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