PLANNING AND URBAN DESIGN STANDARDS STUDENT EDITION - FREDERICK STEINER & KENT BUTLER

PLANNING AND URBAN 

DESIGN STANDARDS 

STUDENT EDITION

FREDERICK STEINER 

KENT BUTLER 

University of Texas at Austin 

AMERICAN PLANNING

ASSOCIATION 

EMINA SENDICH 

Graphics Editor

WILEY

JOHN WILEY & SONS, INC

2007

THE APPLICATION OF GIS TO THE SCHOOL MAPPING IN BANGKOK

THE APPLICATION OF GIS TO THE SCHOOL MAPPING IN BANGKOK

YokoMakino*

Seisuke Watanabe**

*Project researcher, Asian Center for Research on

Remote Sensing (ACRoRS),

AIT, Pathumthani 12120,Tel:(66)-2-524-6486 
Fax:(66)-2-524-6147

e-mail: yoko@ait.ac.th

THAILAND

**Associate Professor, Nagaoka Institute of Design

e-mail:swata@nagaoka-id.ac.jp

JAPAN

KEYWORDS: Bangkok, GIS, School Mapping, City Planning

ABSTRACT

  In Bangkok, primary and junior high schools are under the jurisdiction of several ministries and Bangkok Metropolitan Administration (BMA). Due to this complicated jurisdictional structure, school planning has never been implemented in cooperation with all the related agencies. School databases are scattered allover the agencies, and those are not integrated into digital format together, thus comprehensive school location analysis using GIS has never been carried out.

   From 2002 September, the compulsory education will become nine years from the current six years. In accordance with this government policy, it is an urgent subject to construct school buildings in order to meet new students’ demand; however, the procedure of locating new schools is not smoothly and effectively executed because of the complex jurisdiction system.