ABSTRACT
While much of the underlying structure of Chiang Mai’s early spatial history survived into the nineteenth century, this chapter examines the restoration of the city at the close of the eighteenth century under the rule of King Kawila. This “Kawila restoration” was responsible for creating an urban spatial template that built on the earlier history of the city but effectively amounted to the creation of a new Chiang Mai. The urban configuration created under Kawila would, in the latter half of the nineteenth century, confront the economic and political challenges of western and Siamese intervention.
