Phnom Penh nach der urbanen Katastrophe. „Alltägliches Geographie-Machen“ am Beispiel der Standortentscheidungen von Wirtschaft und Handel in einer südostasiatischen Metropole

Kolnberger, Thomas

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“…In terms of the human capital, the universities and colleges of various standards established for a young generation of city dwellers are booming. Regarding the material culture and consumption, Phnom Penh is now definitely part of the modern world, having been transformed from a city of pedestrians, bikers, and motorized two-wheelers into a city that favors four wheels and has to deal with congested traffic in public spaces (Shatkin, 1998;Kelly and McGee, 2003;Osborne, 2008;Nam, 2011;Paling, 2012;Kolnberger, 2012aKolnberger, , 2012bPercival and Waley, 2012;Fauveaud, 2014).…”

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Continuity and change: Transformations in the urban history of Phnom Penh, Cambodia

Kolnberger¹

2020

Global Studies

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In simple terms, transformation is the process that occurs when something changes from one state to another. Irrespective of the definitional nuances in urban and rural research, there is consensus that such events are complex and ongoing. To disentangle the factors and drivers from the outcomes and features, this paper's conceptual approach differentiates between the transitional process, or the "flow", and the "status", which refers to the existing state of affairs at a specific time in the past. My historical analysis, however, in the guise of snapshots, presents several in-between stages in Phnom Penh's urban development status with particular reference to its urban morphology. This angle prioritizes long-term historical and slowly evolving structures as longue durée over a big leap forward into Modernity. This priority also seeks to counter the identification of continuity rather than change − a widespread occupational hazard to which historians are prone. Empirical evidence mostly points to persistency and resilience; consequently, if changes do occur, they do not necessarily reflect progress but modifications at best. Implicitly, however, "transformation" is still associated with progress (development, growth, evolution, improvement or forward-movement), which is the paradigm of modernization as a model of an advancing transition from "pre-modern" or traditional to "modern societies" (Knöbl, 2003). The path Phnom Penh − Cambodia's current capital − took to modernity, understood here as our contemporary (hyper)modern times, was neither a history of progress nor straight forward (Eisenstadt, 2003; Chandler, 2000). Events, whose scope was unprecedented, triggered profound changes, altering both the urban landscape (the physical side) and the urbanity (the urban life) of the Lower Mekong metropole. Not only the vicissitudes of Phnom Penh's relatively short 150-year history, but also Cambodia's general settlement history raises the question: What is rural and what is urban? This question is especially relevant for one of this collective volume's guidelines, namely providing a regional framework. "Western" scholarly concepts of "the city," particularly the sharp contrast between urban and rural areas, are often not appropriate for Southeast Asia.Historically, this academic binarity is used in terms of rural transitions, which

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Section: Developer Playground and The Return Of The Infamous "One Permentioning

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Continuity and change: Transformations in the urban history of Phnom Penh, Cambodia

Kolnberger¹

2020

Global Studies

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“…Towards the centre and around the Central Market, which opened in 1937, the rural plots were smaller. Access to the street and the amount of pedestrian movement were key factors (Kolnberger, 2012). The ground floors of the 'commercial residential buildings' here (cf.…”

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Between water and land: urban and rural settlement forms in Cambodia with special reference to Phnom Penh

Kolnberger

2015

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In explaining urban form in Cambodia, morphological continuity between rural and urban forms is examined. Environment and agrarian land use are decisive factors in the location and shape of plots in the countryside. Under conditions of higher population density, urban plots tend to be compressed versions of rural ones. Adopting a historico-geographical approach, the development of the form of Phnom Penh as a colonial city and capital of a French protectorate is explored as an example of the persistence of a rural settlement pattern in a specific urban context.

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Phnom Penh nach der urbanen Katastrophe. „Alltägliches Geographie-Machen“ am Beispiel der Standortentscheidungen von Wirtschaft und Handel in einer südostasiatischen Metropole

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Continuity and change: Transformations in the urban history of Phnom Penh, Cambodia

Continuity and change: Transformations in the urban history of Phnom Penh, Cambodia

Between water and land: urban and rural settlement forms in Cambodia with special reference to Phnom Penh

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