Abstract
This article assimilates the city of Phnom Penh into an open system that has spread into the Mekong River flood plain with the backfilling of tidelands and the building of successive dykes. The city's hydraulic networks were damaged by the major crisis suffered under the Khmer Rouge characterized by a strong de-urbanization process. Since 1979, the progressive restoration of institutions, in addition to
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