Abstract: The formation and transformation of the canal networks in the city of Chiang Mai, due to the expansion of community that disconnect of the canal network. Then evanescent in people perception and on behalf of the city element. So that, concern with the city planning. In the past, people use a wisdom to manage the canal network and cooperate with the city planning. The canal network is lost naturally even the transformation of the city irrespective of the traditional in a canal network. That event concern with the city planning. However, people use modern technology to solve a tentative problem of the canal network. Moreover, consisting of the extension in a messily tradition community. The reasons above have an effect on some canal network change to be a drainage of wastewater in the city planning. More than that public utility system. Then, rise to a flood problem form the canal network was block.
This thesis according to research in the point of formation and transformation in the city of Chiang Mai, in the sense of the canal network and city planning. The researcher concedes to the reason that influence with the transformation and the canal network in the city of Chiang Mai change. For the purpose of providing the simple method to manage the canal network in the city of Chiang Mai, and accord with the environment of the city. Along with the land use and appearance of the city is the present. The results revealed that a category relation of the canal network has a transformation from a factor of politics, administration, change. Moreover, perform with a land tenure of a government sector, ordinary people and private sector. That the canal network was managed by the government and private sector. So that makes the canal network still fullness. For the canal network with non-government to take care of, that produces the damage of the canal network and be faint from the city planning.
Keywords: The city plan of Chiang Mai, Transformation, Formation, Canal network, Urban structure
Title: Formation and Transformation of Canal Network in the City Plan of Chiang Mai
Author: Silada Baipo, Nawit Ongsavangchai
International Journal of Social Science and Humanities Research
ISSN 2348-3156 (Print), ISSN 2348-3164 (online)
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