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Tasting the Periphery: Bangkok's Agri‐ and Aquacultural Fringe
Author(s) -
McGrath Brian,
Thaitakoo Danai
Publication year - 2005
Publication title -
architectural design
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.128
H-Index - 22
eISSN - 1554-2769
pISSN - 0003-8504
DOI - 10.1002/ad.75
Subject(s) - situated , wine tasting , ecosystem , geography , fishery , business , economy , civil engineering , engineering , ecology , economics , computer science , art , artificial intelligence , biology , wine , visual arts
Brian McGrath and Danai Thaitakoo survey the ecosystem of Bangkok, ‘an amphibious city’ situated on a silted tidal delta. Influenced by Western planning ideas, the major roadways and infrastructure projects constructed since the Second World War remain out of kilter with local conditions. It is as if a consumer society, networked to global media and transport links, has been ‘superimposed on a wet rice‐cultivating landscape’.