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The Thai government's project called “Eastern Economic Corridor (EEC)” was announced in 2016 to stimulate economic development and help the country escape from the middle-income trap. The project provides investment incentives for the private sector and the infrastructure development of land, rail, water, and air transportation. The EEC project encompasses three provinces in the eastern region of Thailand because of their strategic locations near deep seaports and natural resources in the Gulf of Thailand. Clearly, this policy will lead to dramatic changes in land uses and the livelihoods of the people in these three provinces. However, the extent to which land use changes will occur because of this project remains unclear. This study aims to analyze land use changes in the eastern region of Thailand using a Cellular Automata–Markov model. The results show that land uses of the coastal areas have become more urbanized than inland areas, which are primarily agricultural lands. The predicted land uses suggest shrinking agricultural lands of paddy fields, field crops, and horticulture lands but expanding perennial lands. These changes in land uses highlight challenges in urban administration and management as well as threats to Thailand's agricultural cultures in the future.

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Globalization has forced cities and regions to rely on creative innovations as a source of competitiveness and prosperity. Yet little is known about the physical factors that influence the residential location choices of innovative individuals in Asia. This paper examines the impact of publicly‐accessible built environments on the location choices of creative households – those led by creative heads – in the Bangkok Metropolitan Region. Results show that the location choices of creative households are positively associated with the presence of transit stations, malls and parks, suggesting that publicly‐accessible spaces facilitate face‐to‐face interactions, which in turn promote information exchanges and knowledge spillovers. Resumen. La globalización ha obligado a ciudades y regiones a depender de innovaciones creativas como fuente de competitividad y prosperidad. Sin embargo, se sabe poco acerca de los factores físicos que influyen en las decisiones de individuos innovadores en Asia la hora de elegir la localización de su residencia. Este artículo examina el impacto de los entornos urbanos de acceso público en las decisiones de localización de sus hogares – con directivos creativos como cabeza de hogar– tomadas por parte de individuos creativos en la Región Metropolitana de Bangkok. Los resultados muestran que las decisiones de localización de hogares de individuos creativos están asociadas positivamente con la presencia de estaciones de transporte público, centros comerciales y parques, dando a entender que los espacios públicos facilitan la interacción cara a cara, la cual favorece a su vez los intercambios de información y spillovers de conocimiento.