Development’s Chimera…
The areas in Phnom Penh which were evicted over the last decennium are mostly feeding a chimera of development, nurturing a gentrification which targets the Cambodian or Chinese 1%.
Lively cities are not made of a string of ghetto’s containing specific social groups. The presence and intertwinement of rich and poor within the same urban community allows for the preservation of a sense of reality, puts things in perspective, can help to develop feelings of solidarity.
If you want to know more about land issues in Cambodia, there is an app for that… ‘Quest for Land’, 10 years of land issues in Cambodia can be downloaded at THIS LINK.
