City of Water: Architecture, Urbanism and the Floods of Phnom Penh

Author : Shelby Doyle
Category : Academic Papers
Format : PDF
Geographic Focus : Phnom Penh
Published : Oct.2012 Download

This paper is a summry of research conducted in 2011-2012, funded in part by the Fulbright Program and entitled City of Water: Architecture, Urbanism and the Floods of Phnom Penh. This work documents the relationships between water, architecture, and infrastructure in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. The objective of the project is to record the architectural and urban conditions sustained by and subject to the cyclical floods of the city’s rivers and the challenges faced by Phnom Penh as it rapidly urbanizes in a flood plain.