It has been five months since Klong Ong Ang (formerly known as Saphan Lek) of Phra Nakhon district was reinvented as a popular tourist attraction for people to enjoy street art and a weekend night market. The canal has been restored and hailed as a tremendous success by the Bangkok Metropolitan Administration (BMA).
The BMA’s remarkable Klong Ong Ang canal restoration project earlier this month won a 2020 United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat) Asian Townscape Award. This has given the BMA confidence to go ahead with adopting the Klong Ong Ang revamp as a model for other community development projects in the capital.
Having won the award, Klong Ong Ang…
