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Extracts from Phnom Penh Post interview with Michelle Lau, managing director of Shukaku Inc.:

Developments for the new master plan of PPCC [Phnom Penh City Centre] began in 2012 – the year Lau took over the reins at Shukaku.

Focusing on the large 111.6-hectare plot of land, it seems that Shukaku has succeeded in developing and delivering one of the most transparent and detailed development master plans published in Cambodia so far.
The new master plan divides the whole land into more than 40 different plots with fixed and specific development purposes which, in essence, create “an integrated and liveable city, with carefully thought out urban planning of an international standard, guided by structured development codes,” said Lau.

Unlike Phnom Penh, PPCC aims to organise different developments into centralised groups, in accordance with their purpose. In Shukaku’s ‘city within the city’, residential, commercial and mixed development are confined to specific areas.

The benefit of strictly regulating where developments are or are not allowed to take place, according to Lau, is having a “central place for businesses to conduct efficient, comfortable and reliable operations. PPCC will definitely be the capital’s new business and financial district.”

She added, “But it will also be more than that. My vision is to create a place where the community can truly live in the future of Cambodia – this includes wide spaces filled with greenery and safe roads as well as providing a central place for businesses to conduct efficient, comfortable and reliable operations. PPCC will essentially be the capital of Phnom Penh.”

They should make a lake on it, now that would look nice!

As one might have expected, the green space is minimal to non-existent.

Central Park

If you're going to have a park at least make it a decent sized one. This one has three roads cutting across it, so it's basically four little parks in a row. Wouldn't it be better to have allocated one uninterrupted space?

Who here remembers those cheap and cheery guesthouses on precarios stilts on the lake
with their free marijuana in a bowl on a side-table
and the strolling-in midday hookers?

I refer to a lost golden age plus or minus 17 years ago.

It wasn't a golden age for all - we were told repeatedly not to even
THINK of swimming in the lake

and there was terror at the seaside

http://www.nytimes.com/1998/12/22/world ... -town.html

... but the Brit running the old Red Snapper bar in S'ville had a bong the size of a trench mortar and blew
smoke out of both nostrils like a dragon

mammothboy2 wrote:Who here remembers those cheap and cheery guesthouses on precarios stilts on the lake
with their free marijuana in a bowl on a side-table
and the strolling-in midday hookers?

I refer to a lost golden age plus or minus 17 years ago.

Well, there was that and more.

I recall the road which headed west from the gun traffic circle as a dirt road lined with small wooden houses by day, and red lights at night. It only cost a dollar for a service late on a Friday night.

Of course every city centre must have a driving range.

^^ Good point. Perhaps they could change it for one those indoor ski fields with real artificial snow.