Urbanization Process and Sustainable Local Management

Abstract

This academic article aims to explain the urbanization process and sustainable 
local management. The main issues are as follows: the definition of the word ‘city’ 
and the concept of urbanization process, the situation of the urbanization process in 
Thailand, problems related to the urbanization in Thailand, strategies for national 
development and the development of local cities, and sustainable local city 
management. The result of the study found that a city is an area where a large number 
of people live together. The situation of the urbanization process in Thailand tends to 
continuously increase and there are problems related to urbanization in terms of 
physical, social and cultural. Prescribing the national development strategies at various 
level is greatly help in setting up goals and directions for city development. Therefore, 
to achieve in sustainable management of various local city, the integration of various 
concepts must be applied in order to develop concrete results. These concepts 
consisted of 1. the dimension of participatory local strategy development 2. the 
dimension of territorial goal setting of local 3. the dimension of establishing local 
governance system 4. the dimension of the integration of local government agencies 
with network partners 5. the dimension of local budget management 6. the dimension 
of monitoring and feedback with local participation.