Department of city planning - Bangkok Thailand -

The city planning work for Bangkok was formal initiated in 1953. The Bangkok Municipality established the City Planning Section as part of the Public Works Division.

In 1961, The City Planning Section was promoted to be the City Planning Division which was part of the Public Works Department. During this period, it comprised of two main sections; (1) City Planning Section, and (2) Surveying and Statistics Section.

Later, In 1966, The Traffic Engineering Section was initiated.

In 1967, The City Planning Division was transferred from the Public Works Department to be part of the Permanent Secretary for the Bangkok Municipality.

On 14^th December 1972 The Bangkok Metropolitan Administration (BMA) was established. In this period, the City Planning Division was transferred to be part of the Permanent Secretary Office for the BMA. There were 3 Sections; (1) Secretary Section, (2) City Planning Section, and (3) Surveying and Statistics Section, with 65 staffs in the City Planning Division.

In 1974, The City Planning Division was improved their working structure by dividing into 4 sections; (1) Urban Planning Research Section, (2) Mapping Section, (3) Urban Planning Section, and (4) Planning Control Section. There were totally 93 staffs in this period.

In 1978, The City Planning Division, under the supervision of the Permanent Secretary Office for the BMA, was improved their working structure again. They were divided into 5 Sections, (1) Secretary Section, (2) Urban Planning Research Section, (3) City Planning Section 1, (4) City Planning Section2, and (5) City Planning Section 3. There were 227 staffs in the division since then.