The Backstory of Bangkok, Thailand’s Megacity

Опубликовано: 05 Август 2024
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Music:
Bonad "Down By The River"
Hans Johnson "Human Connection (Instrumental)"
Hans Johnson "One Planet (Instrumental)"
idokay "Life's Journey Begins"

0:00 Welcome to Bangkok
0:34 The Geography of Bangkok
1:35 Thai Power: America, King Bhumibol, & the Military
2:39 Modern, Hardworking Thailand
3:27 Travel to 'The World's Best City'
4:16 Buddhist Culture
4:51 An Open Society
5:00 Rapid Warming
5:40 Crowded Roads and Rails
6:37 Midwife Traffic Cops
6:59 Greening of Bangkok
8:05 Bangkok's Green Lung
8:32 Looking Ahead

Bangkok, Thailand’s vibrant, sprawling capital consistently ranks as the most visited destination on earth. There’s a dark underbelly here for sure, but that’s one of many ingredients that makes this ‘Venice of the East’ a perfect encapsulation of megacities in the 21st century, with their dynamism and tragedy. It’s modern, tropical, polluted, crowded, delicious.

Bangkok now straddles the Chao Phraya a few kilometers upriver from a bay that flows into a gulf and, eventually, the sea. In 1782 it became the capital of Siam–the name Thailand wasn’t invented until 1939. Its previous capital, Ayutthaya Burmese Army.

Today, Bangkok’s historic heart is Rattanakosin Island with its Grand Palace and Temple of the Emerald Buddha, the most sacred site in Thailand. Ratchadamnoen Avenue features the Democracy Monument and is lined by major government buildings. Canals

World War 2, the United States Thai society corruption King Bhumibol

Bangkok greenspace new park is Chulalongkorn Centenary water-retention pond, underground drainage system, and rain garden. Another is the newly expanded Benjakitti Park elevated pedestrian walkway to Lumpini, the city’s first public park. They will all help combat Bangkok’s serious flooding problem.

Bang Kachao, Bangkok’s “Green Lung"

Suvarnabhumi Airport

Prime Minister

Thailand’s Kra Isthmus