Professor Apiwat Ratanawaraha, Department of Urban and Regional Planning, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand
Co-sponsored by Harvard University Asia Center, Harvard-Yenching Institute, Harvard University Graduate School of Design, and the Ash Center
About the Event
Chaired by: Hue-Tam Ho Tai, Kenneth T. Young Professor of Sino-Vietnamese History, Harvard University; With Introduction by Bish Sanyal, Ford International Professor of Urban Development and Planning, MIT, and Director of SPURS/HUMPHREY program, MIT; Discussants: Rahul Mehrotra, Chair of the Department of Urban Planning and Design, and Diane E. Davis, Professor of Urbanism and Development, Harvard University Graduate School of Design
Recognized as one of the most prolific Thai urban planners in his generation, Ratanawahara will discuss multiple challenges facing the futures of Thai cities in the next two decades. These challenges include population aging, foreign migration, economic integration with other Southeast Asian countries and China, large-scale infrastructure investment, and political, as well as administrative decentralization.... Read more about Shaping the Futures of Thai Cities: The Second Annual Thailand @ Harvard Lecture