Croissance urbaine et dynamiques socio-spatiales des territoires ouvriers à Phnom Penh

• Main Author: Gabriel Fauveaud
• Format: Article
• Language: deu
• Published: Unité Mixte de Recherche 8504 Géographie-cités 2012-08-01
• Series: Cybergeo
• Subjects: territory; clothing industry; social groups; rural-urban linkages; spatial practices; habitat
• Online Access: http://journals.openedition.org/cybergeo/25490

The implementation of garment industries builds original periurban spaces in Phnom Penh. The development of this activity accelerates the urban growth and introduces some new socio-economic connections between the city and its peripheral spaces. The discourses, practices and representations of the workers reveal the existence of a homogenous social group. Their new urban life is mainly structured around the habitat and the secondary street. However, those particular urban spaces are transformed by the conquest of periurban spaces by a new class of urban entrepreneurs. In this article, we would like to show how the industrialization in Phnom Penh transforms the processes of urban sprawl, and how the urban sprawl affects the socio-spatial realities of the workers.