Worawit Saisuphatpol, deputy
director-general of the Department of Public Works and Town & Country
Planning.
Phasakorn Channgam
Civic planners are looking to infrastructure systems from Japan to the
Netherlands as they brainstorm ways to better build out Pattaya in coming
years.
More than 100 local, provincial and national city planners met Feb. 6-8 at
the Asia Pattaya Hotel to lay out ideas for infrastructure development in
five eastern provinces. Engineers used England, Japan, the Netherlands,
United States and Wales as examples.
“With the current changes in the world, this seminar is a necessity to
brainstorm new ideas for city planning by studying the planning of other
countries and using those plans to facilitate and internationalize our
cities,” said Worawit Saisuphatpol, deputy director-general of the
Department of Public Works and Town & Country Planning. “This will lead to
more efficient and developed cities in the future.”
The DPT has been the main agency responsible for the planning of Thai cities
for the past 40 years. The agency has used the Planning Act of 1974 as its
guide to draft and lay infrastructure. However, changes in the economy,
environment and weather patterns have forced city engineers to re-examine
long-term plans.
