Baan Mankong: Going to scale with "slum" and squatter upgrading in Thailand

Environment and Urbanization

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 21-46

  Boonyabancha, Somsook ^a  

^a Asian Coalition for Housing Rights (ACHR)   (Thailand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HOUSING MANAGEMENT; HOUSING POLICY; INFORMAL SETTLEMENT; URBAN HOUSING;

ASIA; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; SOUTHEAST ASIA; THAILAND; WORLD;

SLUM;

EID: 18144375563     PISSN: 09562478     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1630/0956247053633845     Document Type: Article

References (8)

1. Angel, Shlomo and Somsook Boonyabancha (1988), "Land sharing as an alternative to eviction: the Bangkok experience", Third World Planning Reuiew Vol 10, No 2, May, pages 107-127.
2. Boonyabancha, Somsook (2003), "A decade of change: from the Urban Community Development Office (UCDO) to the Community Organizations Development Institute (CODI) in Thailand", Poverty Reduction in Urban Areas Working Paper 12, IIED, London, 31 pages, available free of charge from http://www.iied.org/urban/index.html;
3. see also Boonyabancha, Somsook (2001), "Savings and loans - drawing lessons from some experiences in Asia", Environment and Urbanization Vol 13, No 2, October, pages 9-21.
4. For a more detailed description of Baan Mankong, see CODI (2004), CODI Update 4, June, 32 pages, available from ACHR, Bangkok, e-mail: achrλoxinfo.co.th
5. Boonyabancha, Somsook (2003), "A decade of change: from the Urban Community Development Office (UCDO) to the Community Organizations Development Institute (CODI) in Thailand", Poverty Reduction in Urban Areas Working Paper 12, IIED, London, 31 pages, available free of charge from http://www.iied.org/urban/index.html;
6. also Boonyabancha, Somsook (1999), "The urban community environmental activities project, Thailand", Environment and Urbanization Vol 11, No 1, April, pages 101-115.
7. These are also techniques widely used by other organizations and federations of the urban poor - see Environment and Urbanization Vol 13, No 2, (2001);
8. also Patel, Sheela (2004), "Tools and methods for empowerment developed by slum dwellers' federations in India", Participatory Learning and Action 50, IIED, London.