In 2016 Paris and Phnom Penh celebrated their 25 year old partnership and began a new co-operation programme.
Today, the urban development explosion is radically changing the morphology and landscape of the Cambodian capital.
Faced with issues linked to the quality of life and adapting to climate change, the teams of the two cities have worked together to draw up a development plan for the area south of Phnom Penh and a project for recovering the banks of the Tonlé Sap.
This work was carried out in the context of the decentralised co-operation programme between Paris and Phnom Penh and supported by the French Ministry of Europe and Foreign Affairs.
Table of contents:
Prefaces
- Anne Hidalgo, Mayor of Paris
- Khuong Sreng, Governor of Phnom Penh
Introduction
- The co-operation programme: a dialogue between municipal departments
- Building a sustainable metropolis
Development plan for the Southern Zone
- The zone today and the advance of urbanisation
- The structure of Phnom Penh’s southern suburbs, a large lake and flood embankment roads
- The ING City project
- Inventing a sustainable hydraulic system for Boeng Cheung Ek in order to cleanse and protect the city
- The lake becomes an urban landscape
- A new public road network
- The green city
- Providing the city with facilities
- The circular structure of Choeung Ek: a marvellous technique in VII-VIII century Cambodia
- The development plan for the area south of Phnom Penh
Quai Sisowath, from port to promenade
- Quai Sisowath: completing and embellishing the city’s riverfront
- A stretch north of Sisowath quayside is neglected and devoted to transportation
- Redefining the shoreline: public space for all, a showcase of the sustainable city
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