To Jacobs, a well-functioning neighbourhood city street has a little of everything: shops, cafés, schools, libraries, recreation, and destinations that encourage walking day and night. Buildings hold apartments but also neighbourhood shops, doctors’ offices, and office space. Having well-balanced street-level design activates the sidewalks and invites residents outside with their all-important “eyes on the street,” […]
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The capital of Cambodia, Phnom Penh, has undergone rapid urbanisation over the last 10 years and now houses over 2 million inhabitants[1]. Urbanisation is rapidly becoming one of the key challenges of the country’s development. Despite the opportunities presented by such growth, Phnom Penh faces multi-faceted threats from inadequate basic service provision: drainage wastewater treatment
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According to ESRI front page, it is a geographic information system (GIS) which is a framework for gathering, managing, and analyzing data. Rooted in the science of geography, GIS integrates many types of data. It analyses spatial location and organizes layers of information into visualization using maps, and 3D scenes. With this unique capability, GIS
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Borey is a gated community in Cambodia. It has the form of a row of houses that look the same. Borey projects are mostly situated in suburbia and it is the main cause of the urban sprawl in Cambodia. Quoted from an article written by Phnom Penh Post, it is said that there are 178 Borey
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Waste management and waste recycling are the two major environmental issues in Phnom Penh city. You know that they are the major threats because everywhere you look, you can see rubbish scattered on the street, pavement, grass, and inside and outside sewerage channels. Statically, Phnom Penh produces, mainly, produces three types of waste and they
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As far as I am concerned, Phnom Penh city has many public parks but none of them use the xeriscaping technique. So what is xeriscaping, you ask? Xeriscaping (often incorrectly spelt zero-scaping or xeriscaping) is landscaping and gardening that reduces or eliminates the need for supplemental water from irrigation. Don’t bother to look at Wikipedia because I copied the definition from that. Anyway,
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Located at Koh Dach and about 2 kilometers from the ferry, you will see a house on your right which looks rather messy with all the hanging plastic bottle parts cut and shredded in front of the entrance. Noticeably, there is a so-called Terk Kork Chhus (Sweet Snow sth). The first thing that you see
Public space is somewhere, someplace, for people to go out, relax, or interact with each other. This could be the gathering point of groups of friends or strangers, planned or unplanned. Public space consists of more than green parks, waterfront areas, streets, or pavements, but it has a broader character to be called public space.
