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The urban hydro-agricultural complex of the Chao Phraya River Delta was radically transformed as a result of Bangkok’s rapid and expansive urbanization over the last 50 years. While the delta and the city are now in conflict, they were once entangled in a highly resilient absorbent agricultural matrix in concert with climatic cycles of monsoon and dry seasons. Urban planning and design education and research can begin to address the pressing need for adaptation to urbanization in this megacity through a careful reexamination of the evidence of the resilient performative capacity of this delta city’s past through systematic archival, remote sensing, and field observation. Understanding of historical resilience and adaptation of living with water evident in indigenous and traditional processes are crucial in land and waterscape planning and design for the Chao Phraya Delta’s city region future.
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The authors would like to thank the Chulalongkorn University Centenary Academic Development Project, the Higher Education Research Promotion and National Research University Project of Thailand, the Office of the Higher Education Commission (CC297A) and Parsons the New School for Design, and the US National Science Foundation Biocomplexity and Baltimore Ecosystem Study of Long-Term Ecological Research program for their support of this research.
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Thaitakoo, D., McGrath, B. (2017). The Landscape of Bangkok’s Agricultural Fringe and City Region Sustainability: An Ecological and Cultural Co-evolution. In: Yokohari, M., Murakami, A., Hara, Y., Tsuchiya, K. (eds) Sustainable Landscape Planning in Selected Urban Regions. Science for Sustainable Societies. Springer, Tokyo. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-4-431-56445-4_10
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