Managing Intermediate Size Cities: Sustainable Development in a Growth Region of Thailand

346 Pages·2002·16.263 MB·English

by  Michael Romanos, Christopher Auffrey (auth.), Michael Romanos, Christopher Auffrey (eds.)

Managing Intermediate Size Cities
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Managing Intermediate
Size Cities
Sustainable Development in a
Growth Region of Thailand
edited by
MICHAEL ROMANOS
and
CHRISTOPHER AUFFREY
School of Planning,
University of Cincinnati, U.S.A.
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To our wives,
Carla Chifos and Ann Auffrey
FOREWORD
I am both pleased and honored to introduce this book to readers, and I want to take a
few moments to explain why.
Michael Romanos and Christopher Auffrey have produced a volume which will
be of immense value to several different types of people. Planners and other
specialists concerned with the development of the Southeast Asian region and the
issues and opportunities associated with urban growth and sustainable development
will find much to interest them in this book. But the book, I believe, has much wider
appeal, and that is what I want to touch on briefly here.
The University of Cincinnati, where Michael, Chris, and I work, is attempting to
globalize itself - to develop its institutional capacity for international activities, to
infuse its curriculum with international themes, and to promote and increase global
competence among its graduates. Many American universities are doing this, of
course. In the process, we are seeing some very interesting experiments in pedagogy,
as faculty look for "learning moments" in new and sometimes exotic places.
Michael, Chris, and their colleagues have, it seems to me, developed an outstanding
model for learning across national and cultural boundaries. In the chapters which
follow, you will read the results of their work. What will be less apparent, however,
is the process by which that work was produced.
To my mind, this process is as important as the results themselves. In planning as
in education, what you get depends in large part on how you do something. What is
particularly interesting and exciting about this volume is the way in which the work
was done, through a field project design which has become a model at the University
of Cincinnati for global pedagogy. The process involved establishing and developing
collaborative relationships with local municipalities overseas, as well as with diverse
disciplines on our own and other campuses. The agenda for research and action then
arose from the dialogue between university-based specialists, on the one hand, and
municipal groups and agencies on the other. The content of what was learned thus
arose from the interactions between these groups at a variety of different levels.
Such research is essentially inductive in nature, resembling what Schon has termed
"reflective practice." This type of approach differs from so much of our more
traditional international education, where established canons, concepts, procedures
and syllabi predominate, and where the international context becomes little more
than a location where we practice what we already know.
At the University of Cincinnati, we are becoming aware that one of our most
important tasks as educators and concerned world citizens is to improve the ways in
which our students - and the faculty who teach them - learn about the world outside
our borders. And this learning, when it occurs, cannot really serve anyone well
unless it is somehow applied directly to areas of human concern. The work that
forms the basis for this book is an excellent example of how to do just that. The
project involved students and faculty from multiple disciplines, universities, and
countries, interacting with the citizens and officials of Chiang Mai. The design of the
project provided students, in particular, with an excellent introduction to how
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professionals work together internationally on issues of common concern. Students
not only observed this work, they actually participated in and contributed to it.
All university programs teach content. Few university programs link content
with context - that is, with the field or situation in which content knowledge is
relevant. And, only a very few programs use the field situation to actually generate
new knowledge.
The work described here is an excellent example of "learning how to learn", and
doing this in an international, intercultural, multidisciplinary context. Michael,
Chris, and all of their colleagues and associates deserve high praise for the care,
intelligence, and effort which they put into the design and management of this
project.
The book which you are about to read will clearly speak to the concerns of
planners and policy-makers in a variety of areas, regions and disciplines. But it will
also be of interest to anyone concerned with how we collaborate and learn cross
culturally, and how we use what we know.
Dr. Riall W. Nolan, Associate Provost and Director
Institute for Global Studies and Affairs
University of Cincinnati
May 15,2002
CONTENTS
Foreword vii
Preface xi
Acknowledgements XVll
Chapter 1: Assessing the Potential for Sustainable Development
in the Intermediate Size Cities of Southeast Asia:
The Experience from Thailand
Michael Romanos and Christopher Auffrey
Part I
Cultural Dimensions as the Underlying Context for Development
Chapter 2: Buddhism and Sustainable Development 23
Lou Matz
Chapter 3: The Emerging Role of Citizens in Planning and
Public Decision-Making in Thailand 39
Krista J Kahle and Thomas E. Wagner
Part II
Key Components of the Local Economic Structure
Chapter 4: Manufacturing in Chiang Mai Province: Products, Patterns, and
Sustainable Balance 59
Howard Stafford
Chapter 5: Sustainable Development and Sustainable Employment in the
Manufacturing Sector of Chiang Mai 75
Roger J Barry
Chapter 6: The Handicraft Sector in Chiang Mai: Its Role in Sustainable
Urban Development 91
Carla Chifos and Johanna W. Looye
Chapter 7: The City ofa Thousand Smiles: Sustainability and the
Pursuit of Tourism in Chiang Mai
Michael Romanos 127
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Part III
Environmental Management Issues in Development
Chapter 8: Environmental Management in Thai Cities: Local Challenges,
State Responses 155
Michael Romanos, Thomas E. Wagner, Suwattana Thadaniti
Chapter 9: Water Resources for a Sustainable Chiang Mai 187
Xinhao Wang and Lin Liu
Chapter 10: A Study of Changing Traditional Urban Solid Waste
Management Approaches to Sustainable Practices 209
Judith A. Meyer Schultz
Chapter 11: Building a Geographic Information System 223
Lin Liu and Xinhao Wang
Part IV
The Built Environment's Role in Sustainable Development
Chapter 12: Land Use and Urban Growth in Chiang Mai: Lessons for More
Effective Urban Development Management 237
Bobi B. Setiawan and Dwita Rahmi
Chapter l3: Towards a Sustainable Urban Form in Chiang Mai 253
Brenda Scheer and David Scheer
Chapter 14: The Informal Settlements of Chiang Mai: Lessons of
Sustainability for Other Intermediate Size Cities 273
Christopher Auffrey
Chapter 15: Preservation of Cultural and Historic Heritage as a Tool
for Sustainable Development 295
Hugo Rincon and Dwita Rahmi
A Sense of Place: Visual Documentation of a City and Its Prospects for
Sustainability 321
Jon Hughes
Contributors 327
Index 333
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