Modern History documentary

Colonial Phom Penh

"the city is in danger of forgetting its past"

Colonialism structured city's around the world

2000 people were imprisoned in tullslang which was once a high school

preserving cultural heritage

"heart of darkness" - restaurant

Chemere

Lake is used for rice paddies

thanks to being on a river, Phnom Penh never lost its importance

Phnom became a political centre

French think that Chemec can do better

French thought that they should use technology to conquer nature

Phom Penh means mountain lady

Architecture is designed for the environment and the people

1884 the french claimed that materials MUST be built out of brick.

French are using architecture as a way of visually intimidating the locals

The dividing of urban space along racial lines.

There is segregation on urban planning

Phom Penh is economically run by the Chinese

Physical boundries that separeated the eauropean communities from the chemere, and the chinese and vietmanese.

There is a style that most people associate with cambodia, where as its actually designed by the french

Architecture is going to be a way of saving the Cambodians by distinguishing them from others.

Napoleons head on the statue was replaced by emperor noridoms

People believe that the Cambodian style is traditional

The national museum is a hybrid of french Orientalism and is not accurate

All original documents were torched.