วิถีท้องถิ่นและผังกายภาพของตลาดชุมชนริมบริเวณริมแม่น้ำท่าจีน กรณีศึกษา จังหวัดสุพรรณบุรีและจังหวัดนครปฐม, Local Ways and Physical Plan of Waterfront Community Markets along Tha Chin River: A Case Study of Suphan Buri and Nakhon Pathom Provinces

Abstract

Abstracts

        This paper presents a qualitative research that aims to study the relationship among the community’s physical plan, local way of life, architectural style and its activity system, the history of waterfront
community market settlement, changes in physical conditions and its social structure. The finding is used to forecast future conditions of the waterfront community markets along Tha Chin River in relation to the
surrounding developments.This research helps to build knowledge and understanding towards the community and compliments the knowledge on conservation and community market development. This research employed a site survey and voluntary interviews, asking key informants in 24 markets. The findings show that there are differences in terms of local way of life and physical plan among community markets in terms of geographical, environmental, traditional and culture aspects, including way of life. Key factors; 1) context and settlement profile, 2) way of life, belief and spatial usage, and 3) architecture and local knowledge, are reciprocally connected and integrated as distinctive identity of local way of life and physical plan of the community market. In this  light, the renewal and conservation of the waterfront community markets is so important, and it should consider geographical and sociological conditions in response to the holistic sufficient economy principle.

Keyword: Waterfront Community Market, Physical Plan, Local Ways, Tha Chin River