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Launched in 2019 by the Bangkok Metropolitan Administration, Green Bangkok 2030 is converting underused public, state and private land into a network of about 101 pocket parks (~104 hectares) by 2030, with phased delivery through 2025, though city-wide monitoring data is lacking.
Launched in December 2019 by the Bangkok Metropolitan Administration (BMA) together with PTT Public Company, the Thai Association of Landscape Architects, the Big Trees Project, We!Park and the Thailand Urban Tree Network, Green Bangkok 2030 aims to convert underused public, state-enterprise and private land into public green space, targeting 10 square metres of green space per resident and a network of parks reachable within a 400-metre, five-minute walk.
As of the early 2020s, roughly 101 sites totalling about 649 rai (approximately 104 hectares) - more than twice the size of Lumpini Park - were identified for conversion, split across city-owned, state-enterprise and privately donated land. A published delivery schedule set out 51 sites for 2022, 24 for 2023, 20 for 2024 and 6 for 2025, including the flagship 41-hectare Benjakitti Forest Park built on former tobacco-monopoly land.
Independent research from the Stockholm Environment Institute documents these "pocket parks" as filling measurable gaps in green-space access across flood-prone, low-income neighbourhoods, and finds they can support local cooling and stormwater absorption. However, no city-wide monitoring data on canopy cover, verified carbon sequestration or measured flood-retention volumes has been published, and researchers note some planned sites have faced land-title and funding delays.
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