‘Green Bangkok 2030’: The Case Study of Obligatory Delegation toward Privately-Owned Neighborhood Public Space Management

Abstract

Green Bangkok 2030 has been the BMA’s policy by enhancing 30% of the coverage areas
of green public space by 2030. Amidst its numerous constraints such as the land acquisition, the
post-occupancy management, and thevibrant programming creation, theresearchershavestudied
upon the chance in enhancing green public space via the National Health Assembly’s mechanism
and via the policy dialoguing among communities, civil actors, state agencies, and private sectors,
since 2018. Oneof the conditionshas been incorporating more with private sectors. This study has
beenconducted via participatoryobservationontwoneighborhood park’s casestudies inBangkok.
By challenging upon the enhancing privately-owned public spaces, two prominent questions are
addressed; 1) what the conditions are in persuading private sectors into the comanaging scenarios
along with the BMA; and 2) how the operations include non-state agencies in the process? The
study highlights that BMA has gained some land plots from private sectors for being public green
spaces and enthusiastically engaged in creating good programs upon them because of new land
tax policy. However, the study underlies the significant managerial gaps within BMA’s internal
bureaucracy to carry on if any exponentially accelerating numbers of neighborhood park project
comparing to its limited fiscal expenditure. The recent insights from this study shed some lights
upon the triangular model of the working group at the district level including state, community,
and private sector as a commission platform.