BOEUNG VENG REIK CHAMROEUN is complementary to the previous sites because of its location in the provincial city of Stueng Saen. It challenges us to think about what city upgrading at a national scale means. Should upgrading processes and practices in provincial cities be the same as in the capital? More specifically Boeung Veng Reik Chamroeun is an example of communities living over public canals and the issues of flooding, pollution, tenure insecurity and threat of eviction they face. Since it impossible to receive a land title on public water, canal communities are particularly difficult for government deal with. Without the possibility of applying circular 3, how will perhaps the new housing policy deal with people living on public canals?
4.6 _ Boeung Veng Reik Chamroeun exemplifies the challenges and aspirations of many canal communities.
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polluted canal
cleaning and upgrading the canal
reblocking and upgrading alongside the canal
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