2013 Volume 78 Issue 694 Pages 2537-2546
Bangkok Metropolitan Region (BMR) is composed of a Mega-capital city and vicinity area and it shows the effect from the rapid urbanization with weak land use control. This research focuses the expanding residential development that transforms agricultural land into residential land that result in the large sprawl phenomenon in suburban and vicinity area. Through understanding of the characteristics of distribution of land uses classify an urban sprawl into four categories with unique characteristics in each the main type of residential development, a gated housing development, with great impact on the land use in BMR. It is necessary for gated housing projects to be addressed with specific solution base on characteristic of sprawling type in different areas.
