This article, by Somsook Boonyabancha, was published in the October 2009 issue of IIED's Environment & Urbanization Journal. The articles in this issue of the E&U Journal were devoted to "Securing land for housing and urban development."

Notes on a visit to the Thai city of Chantaburi, where a citywide process of housing the city's poor is underway - supported mostly by CODI's Baan Mankong Program, but also with some extra inputs from ACHR's ACCA Program. This field visit took place in April 2009, during one of the many ACCA regional meetings.

A 10 page report which describes a discussion between a group of international professionals who are struggling to find ways to support community-driven upgrading, and a group of community people who are actually doing it, in the Bang Bua canal-side communities in Bangkok, Thailand. The visit took place in September 2008.

This is the CODI Update Newsletter No. 5, published in March 2008. The issue is devoted entirely to documenting the progress of the Baan Mankong citywide housing program in Thailand. For a much higher-resolution version of this publication, please visit the document section of the English part of the CODI website: www.codi.or.th

This article about the upgrading of canal-side communities in Bangkok, was written by Nattawut Usavagovitwong and Prayong Posriprasert, was published in the October 2006 issue of IIED's Environment & Urbanization Journal. The articles in this issue of the E&U Journal were devoted to "Ecological Urbanization II."