Reading Bangkok

Index

240 Index 240 Index Aasen, C., 22, 25, 28, 178, 216n8 Abhisit Vejjajiwa, xxiii–xxv, 42, 213n9 absolutism, royal, xxvii, 22, 25, 30, 66, 108, 110, 193 Administrative Court building, 181 Advertising, 121 aesthetic domination (Ratchadamnoen), 59 aestheticisation of poverty, 165 AIDS, 106, 155–6 Aizura, A.Z., 121 Al Jazeera, 217n15 Aliens Act, 49 Alonso, W., 220n7 America, American influence, 79, 94, 99–101, 108, 127, 141–2, 155, 165, 168, 192, 195, 206 economic responses, 140 R&R programme, 92, 94, 99, 126, 147 road planning, 142 Ammar Siamwallah and Orapin Sopchokchai, 138 Ananta Samakhom Throne Hall, xxii, 25–6, 28, 61, 66, 183, 185, 205 Andaya, B.W. and L.Y. Andaya, 51 Anderson, B., 85, 166 Angel, S., 157 Angel, S. and Somsook Boonyabancha, 157 animism, 37 Anupong Paojinda, 213n6 Anuvong, King, 9, 38, 179, 214n7 Aphai Phadermchit, 192 Apichat Tho’ngyu, 172 Apinan Poshyananda, 22, 25–6, 28 aranyawasi (forest dwelling monks), 173 architectural discourse, education, 195–8 architectural style, see also language, architecture Art Deco, 66, 178, 181 Baroque, 25 Chinese, 19–20, 26, 71 Gothic, Flamboyant, 190–1 Gothic-revival, 26, 193 International Style, 182–3 Jugendstijl, Art Nouveau, 178 National Socialist, 181 neo-Classical, 20, 25–6, 29, 149, 154, 181, 191, 193 neo-Egyptian, 191–2 neo-Italianate, 55 neo-Venetian Gothic, 26 Renaissance-revival, 25 Romanesque-revival, 55 architecture as legitimation, 4 Archive of Rattanakosin, 89 Army, Royal Thai, 50, 67, 179 “Armoured Brigade” radio station, 67 as real source of power, 29–31 Corps of Engineers, 102 Arnold, W., 220n13 Arsomslip, 184–5 ASEAN, xxiii–xxiv, 182 Asia Books, 142 Asia Institute of Technology, 129 Asia Times Online, 218n11 Index 241 Askew, M., 57, 92, 99 Assembly of the Poor, 164 Assumption Cathedral, 55 Attachak Sattayanarak, 78 Australia(n), 155, 195–7 authors, 168 automobile culture, 127–8 Ayutthaya, 2–4, 6, 14, 18, 21, 48, 55, 167, 186, 214n2, 221n5 Baan Man Kong, 81–2, 160, 176 Baan Norasingh, 28, see also Government House baan suan rim khlong, 39, 41, 72, 91, 114 Baker, C., 84 Baker, C. and Pasuk Phongpaichit, 7, 26, 42, 49–50, 59, 66–7, 85, 100, 179, 206, 215n10, 217n14, 222n2 Bamrung Bunpanya, 172–3 Ban Bangraonok, 72–4, 83, 160 Bang Kachao, 137 Bang Khun Prom Palace, 25 Bang Pa-In Palace, 26 Bang Sue, 62, 131, 184 Bangkhen, 80, 160, 174 Bangkok as Chinese real estate, 51, 62, 69 as heterotopic, 87 Bangkok Bank, xix, xxv, 58, 128 Bangkok Metropolitan Administration (BMA), 71, 128, 133, 216n4 Policy and Planning Department, 133 Bangkok planning, 127–33, 135–8, 176 “Bangkok 2001: A Space Odyssey”, 219n1 Bangkok Master Plan, 132, 220n6 Bangkok Metropolitan Plan 2533, 127 Comprehensive Plan 1999, 133–4 First Revised Metropolitan Plan, 128 Greater Bangkok Plan 2543, 128 linear versus nodal, 134 monocentric versus polycentric, 133, 220n7 Bangkok Post, 168, 213n4, 216n2, 216n8, 217n17, 218n10, 219n4, 221n19, 222n6 Bangkok River Park Condominium, 190 Bangkok space, see also space as aquatic, 37, 59 as layered, 31–2, 116–7 as muddled, 32, 117, 123, 127 as Muslim, 42 strips versus nodes, 133 Banham, R., 143 Bank of Asia, 66, 194 Barmé, S., 71, 79, 179, 205 Barrett, G., 155 Bartlett, N., 92 Basche, J., 37 Basri Bualert, 149, 220n13 Batson, B.A., 90 beauty fetishisation, 121 pageants, 121 being and time (Heidegger), 216 beggars, begging, 94, 101, 105–7, 122, 163 and gangs, 106 elephant begging, 106, 219n Bello, W. et al., 128, 138, 156, 177 Benjasiri Park, 104 Berlin, 85 BERTS, 129 Bhumibol Adulyadej, King, see Rama IX black-shirts (paramilitary), xix, xxv Blogger Laoism, 213n8 blogs, weblogs, 164, 208 242 Index BMB (Bangkok-Melbourne-Bordeaux), 196 Bodhisatta, 5, 19 Boonanan Natakun, xviii, 217n20 Bordeaux, Ecole d’architecture et de paysage, 196 bourgeoisie, xx, 51 as bridge, 173 Boworadet rebellion, 181 Bowring, J. (and Treaty), 49, 59, 168 Brahma, 113 Brahmanism (Hindu), 40, 113, 125 Breazeale, K., 11 Briggs, L., 214n4 British and “free trade” demands, 49 colonial policy, 44 extraterritorial rights, 50 humiliation of Rama V, 34 support against Front Palace Crisis, 28 Broman, B.M. and M.R. Kukrit Pramoj, 25 brothels, see massage parlours Brown, I., 218n4 Brown, R.A., 48–9, 101 Bruguière, Bishop B., 11, 215n14 BTS Skytrain, xxv, 54, 98–9, 105, 116, 123, 129–30, 133, 143, 153, 176–7, 180, 182 BTSC, 128, 130 Buchanan, B., 187 Buddhadasa Bhikkhu, 39...