News, Oct 23, 2015
Ph. D Candidate Rugkhapan Authors Paper on the Cartographic Construction of Rattanakosin City

Ph. D Candidate Rugkhapan Authors Paper on the Cartographic Construction of Rattanakosin City

Napong Tao Rugkhapan recently published the article “Mapping the historic city: Mapmaking, preservation zoning, and violence” in the Sage Journal’s Environment and Planning D: Society and Space. Drawing on critical cartography literature, Rugkhapan argues that Rattanakosin City, a historic district in Bangkok, has emerged from a particular intersection between cartography and historic preservation as the former is used to legitimize the latter. The paper explores how geometric lines, boundaries, and colored zones have been deployed in constructing Rattanakosin as central and whole. The paper goes on to show that this particular cartographic construction has a hegemonic potential as it is a double silencing that eclipses outside historical geographies, while silencing and subsuming those inside under the category of “historic preservation” land use.

Rugkhapan is a Ph. D candidate in Urban and Regional Planning focusing in urban form and morphology, history of the built environment, and towns and cities in Southeast Asia.

To read the full article, visit: http://epd.sagepub.com/content/33/5/869?etoc

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