Abstract:
The objectives of this thesis in the title of Problems and Needs of Slums in the Chon Buri Municipality, Changwat Chon Bun, is to analyze the problems and needs in the several sectors of the slums in the Chon Buri Municipality, Changwat Chon Buri, such as physical, economic, and social sectors. Moreover, the relationship of the iocations and landuses in the area are analyzed based on the differences of locations and sizes of slums, which faces on the differences problems and needs. Furthermore, these problems have some frequently related to locations and landuses, especially in commercial type. Data using in this study received from the several sources, such as, text books, maps, and field data, with 320 questionnaires. Analysis methods have been used in this study can be divided into 2 parts, firstly, using of T-Test module in the SPSS software version 11.5 for Microsoft Windows analyses the differences of problems and needs of slums, which relied on locations and sizes of slums. Secondly, the relationship of the slums locations versus landuses in the Chon Buri Municipality are analyzed by using the geographical information software, ArcView version 3.1, which accompany with the data from the questionnaires. The result of this study, slums can be divided into 2 zones based on the locations, such as, the shore-line slums and the inner slums. There are the different values of statistics significant at 0.01 in terms of physical, economic, and social. The inner slums have more problems and needs than the shore-line slums in all sectors. Moreover, a small scale of slum has the problems and needs less than a big scale of slum in the economic and the social sectors with the values of statistics significant at 0.01. However, there are no different in the sector of physical needs. Furthermore, the locations of slums have related to the landuses in commerce. Even though the shore-line slums have related the land uses area in commerce as well as the inner slums, but also show the significant value of the land using in reservoir and sea, due to earn by fishery.