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ASEAN Sustainable Leadership in Infrastructure Programme (ASLIP) – My Experience as a 2025 Cohort

ASLIP is a UK Government funded Green Cities and Infrastructure Programme executive leadership course, aiming to address urban and infrastructural challenges. According to ASLIP’s website, the 2025 ASEAN Sustainable Leadership in Infrastructure Programme residential workshop took place in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. The event gathered practitioners and policy leaders from different fields across all ASEAN nation states. […]

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Phnom Penh’s Walking Street: A New Era for Urban Life

Article, Place-Making / thebur.site

‘While active street life generates neighbourliness, which is a critical form of social “wealth,” it is also quite literally good for business. Walkable, active streets generate their own public order, and their foot traffic fuels local shops. Walking is as much a factor in urban economics as it is in a city’s safety and quality

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From Stroads to Streets – Making Our Roads Safer for Everyone

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UNDP Cambodia reports that an average of 5.4 people die daily from traffic accidents, making it the sixth deadliest cause of mortality in the Kingdom. Nearly 50% of injuries resulting from these accidents are fatal or serious (2014-19), with Cambodian youth suffering the most severe injuries. UNDP Cambodia identified two major factors contributing to traffic

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Hidden Heritage – Chen Dam Daek Popup Community Event

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Events and festivals play an important role in supporting economic growth, changing perceptions, and fostering social and cultural regeneration (Richards, 2017). They are often used as key components of placemaking programs to create opportunities for connecting places with people (Son et al., 2021). While the traditional focus of urban planning was on designing buildings and

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Building Footprint Data: Highly Detailed Building Footprint Data for Cambodia from Google Research Lab

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The Building Footprint dataset, produced by Google Research under the Open Buildings project, is a large-scale open-access dataset containing the outlines of 1.8 billion buildings across Africa, Asia, Latin America, and the Caribbean. Launched in 2021, the project covers about 40% of the globe and 54% of the world’s population. The dataset was developed as

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The Living Facades: Urban Infrastructure as Archive

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Humans are adaptable creatures, modifying their living environments to meet their needs. Historically, residential buildings were characterized by continuous changes driven by the evolving needs of their occupants (Konieczna, 2018). Architecture, too, has evolved and developed to serve the changing needs of societies. The social environment is constantly shifting, and architecture must adapt accordingly. These

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City Sound Disturbance: Revealing the Silent Threat to Wellbeing

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Noise pollution is more than just an annoyance; it’s a growing public health issue that’s affecting our physical and mental well-being. In this blog post, we’ll explore what noise pollution is, how it impacts your health, and what we can do to reduce its effects. What is Noise pollution? Noise pollution is defined as sound,

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American-made maps of Cambodia from 1971

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To me, old maps from the past reveal some of the most interesting features that I have never would have noticed in my city or anywhere in my home country. Historical Maps on Interactive Map I began by downloading scanned images of historical maps from The Perry-Castañeda Library (PCL) Map Collection website. Once I had

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Mapping Progress: Banteay Meanchey’s Investment Tech

Building Smart Cities for All – The Path to Digital Inclusion

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Smart City as a term made its first appearance in the early 1990s, and researchers have emphasised technology, innovation and globalisation in the process of urbanisation. According to British Standards Institute, they defined Smart Cities as “the effective integration of physical digital and human systems in the built environment to deliver a sustainable, prosperous and

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