The lack of zoning regulations separating commercial and residential buildings from commingling is one of my favorite features of the bustling metropolises of Southeast Asia. There’s a reason why Thailand, Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam are among the backpacking capitals of the world - there’s simply so much to see, do, eat and buy, all in highly dense and exciting urban environments.
In Nepal🇳🇵most houses have about 1-4 floor houses & a lot of them near the chowk (city-center) have shops of some sort in the ground floor while the upper floors act as residental areas as in people live in by giving rent to the owner of the house who also lives in the same house. The outer sub-urbs basically follow the same trend except with less shops. We also have stalls for people to eat & resturants everywhere. What we lack is walkable streets with footpaths, cycling infrastructure, trolly buses or trams, proper traffic lights, metro systems or trains of any sort. Cars, bikes, scooters, buses, trucks & traffic have ruined Nepal; You could say this for many Asian country more or less.
That lake was a gem when I stayed at a hostel with patios all along the banks in 2007. It was so sad when I returned to check it out a few years ago and the locals said it was filled in by "the Chinese".
Real shame they trashed the White Building in favour of another casino. And that wasn't as bad as filling in the lake. Loved the place in 2001 when it was totally bonkers. City of Ghosts did a great job of capturing the city at that time. Great vid dude - really nailed it.
As the middle class increases, the demand for cars would increase too. And by the looks of it, parking and traffic would be a problem. This city badly needs a reliable transit system.
Impossible to get it in a near future.The city and the country is plagued with corruption.Hun Seen,the country's PM living his life with luxury cars and apartment complex filled by his private army.They just received about 50 bus from China as an aid.A lot of used busses from South Korea also made it's way to Cambodia like the bus who takes me from Siem Reap to Phnom Penh,a used Seoul-Gimpo shuttle bus!
@@cunnyman I've been to Phnom Penh many many times.Those newer buses thanks to China Aid doesn't help a lot to ease Phnom Penh's desperate needs of public transport. So don't have higher hopes on those newer busses . Especially if you only have around 100 of them Tuk-tuk although it was cheap for tourists,it is not for the locals. My local translator there always have a hard time getting a tuk-tuk since most tuk-tuk drivers prefers taking on tourists instead of locals cause of higher payment and generous tip .Taxi are pretty rare and even if you get one,it isn't safe and comfortable enough.I was scammed $200 for a ride to the market from airport Rich and educated people are not supposed to be unaccounted for a safety driving in the city.Unlike Bangkok,KL,and Jakarta who treats people the same in the eyes of the law,Phnom Penh doesn't do the same thing. Especially if you're luxury vehicles have the RCAF licensed plate.Police doesn't even dared enough to touch your vehicle.A dangerous thing for you but not for the richest as they can drink and drive or driving above the speed limit without fear of the police.Causing lost of lives or injuries is 98% guaranteed
I agree, I think the first step would be to put more larger buses with 2 articulated units (which have an accordion in the middle) instead of the usual smaller buses. The long-term solution would be to plan some type of tramway system (yes, it will be expensive, but it will pay off), tram tracks should be separated from the road, so that traffic jams don't affect the schedule. Also, there is a technique of raising the crosswalks to the level of sidewalks, so that each crosswalk acts as a large speedbump, not allowing to speed through it, this idea works very well in European cities.
Timeline of Phnom Penh 1372: Phnom Penh is officially founded. 1431: The city becomes the Cambodian capital for the first time. 1863: Cambodia is made a Protectorate of France. 1865: Phnom Penh becomes the capital again for the second time. 1860s-1930s: Phnom Penh becomes known as the “Paris of the Orient” as the French build mansions, boulevards, bridges, banks, parks, markets, churches, schools and more mansions in the city. 1953-1969: After 90 years of colonial rule Cambodia gains Independence from France. Phnom Penh becomes the coolest city in Asia, developing new and exciting styles in rock music, dance, design, literature, painting, cinema, architecture and cuisine. 1970-1975: US bombing triggers the first chapter of civil war. Refugees from the countryside pour into the city. The population swells to over 2 million. 1975-1978: The Killing Fields brings mass murder, starvation and exhaustion. Phnom Penh becomes a ghost town. 1979-1989: Soviet-backed Vietnamese invasion and occupation. 1993-1998: Monarchy restored, Khmer Rouge ceasefire and final end of civil war. 1998 to present: Cambodia has been the world’s sixth fastest growing economy for the last two decades now.
I've been binge watching your videos for about 5 hours now, and I've gotta say I love what you're doing. Every city you cover makes me want to travel to it, critique it with the same unbiased point of view I envy of you, enjoy all of its amenities, and generally amuse myself. Great work, man, keep it up!
As my remember, They’ve been starting equip the street view in Cambodia since 2012, So everything is changing and now Cambodia looks so different, and more modern.
Thanks for another well made and very interesting in depth analysis of a city! Definitely looking forward to watching your content in the future. Greetings from Helsinki, Finland
The traffic of Phnom Penh is unimagined even for me,who lives in one of the cities with the worst traffic jam in SE Asia .Motorcycles passing around big lorries,rich shit racing around the wide avenue like it was a race track,and their crazy love for SUV and it's roads filled with people who are unable to drive and sadly,their cars bearing the royal insignia or military/state registration plate that just "untouchable" by the police.Good thing is,if you are a crook then Phnom Penh is the best city for you! Buying counterfeit valuable documents have never been so much easy in my entire life! Just bought a fake UK passport with my bonus money from Christmas and New Year's holiday. Now just need a huge bravery to try them
It's interesting but using Google street view (which dates from 2012) doesn't really reflect how the city looks now. The satellite images are up to date, and you can see a huge difference, for example when it switches between the new blocks to the north of Olympic Stadium and street view. The streets are much more congested with cars now, and the idea that it's an easy city to walk around is frankly ludicrous! The pavements are as often as not blocked up by parked vehicles, stalls and other obstacles etc that you usually have to walk on the road. The island isn't Koh Pie! It's Koh Pich (pronounced like Pick), and the street view around there is extremely dated, that whole area has had a huge amount of construction in recent years. Also the island wasn't "built" in 2000, it gradually built up over the past 50 years. It was farmland till 2005, although it would sometimes become completely submerged when the river level rose. In 2005 the residents were evicted and it was shored up considerably before any major building construction began.
I agree. I love how the video is almost ridiculously positive about the things we all hate in Asia. Stuff like what you have said is frustrating for people that actually live there and tourists might find them unique and exciting. No hate towards Western views over these minor stuff but sometimes, things like this can make something not so pleasant look as if it is fine. Just because we were born and live in such place, doesn't mean we love how it is. And of course, bigger roads would be ideal but doing so will greatly affect the people along the streets. It is quite difficult to alter the districts when the city structure was pre-dated since the French era and the government lacks the fund to truly make an organized city center. What it should've been was that the middle of the city consists of more business like a CBD and it gets less and less business focused as it spreads. But with everything spread all over the city. Thus, we have no CBD, urban, sub urban or anything. Although, with recent Chinese investments, it is possible for the entirety of old Phnom Penh areas (the city keeps expanding) to be an actual CBD. Here's hoping for a completely different world by 2025 or 2030.
Bangkok is the dead end city, with highest number of dead end roads. Unless it fixes them and connect them up, it is doomed to have worst traffic jam in the world that can't be fix. Lots of canals that were unuse or abandoned, lots of lost potential from too fast and not well planned urbanisation. That is what I can say for now, please Michael, have a look, it is nightmare to drive or even ride motorbike around it.
@@worawatli8952 you are right, I live there and that is what i like about it, i laugh and even though impractical way to have a city, it is most definitely interesting to look at.
Love this video! I haven't seen someone approach their TH-cam channel quite in this way, and I really like it a lot! I also agree with you 100% about how great of a livable city a city like Phnom Penh is, and much of Asia, for that matter. I've been living in Asia for 20+ years, and I have no desire to return back to the sedentary tv/couch/car/drive-thru lifestyle of the U.S. - not that there is anything wrong with that...
Impressive how informative this video is and the fact you resort to google map and google earth to get your narrative through is awesome. You did your research man. Thanks for the video. Loved it. I’m from Phnom Penh.
@lee pol if he was impressed with Phnom Pehn, then i dont see how he'll hate Metro Manila. I've been to both cities and PP is comparable to the worst parts of Manila
imagine traffic when there's no zoning, no good public transport, narrow roads, no parking, no height restriction, no parking requirement. lol get rekt!
I hope you could do a video of metro manila which comprises of 16 cities, where the central of manila has the pasig river dividing the oldest Chinatown in world and on the other side a Spanish walled city of Intramuros and the modern business districts of bonifacio global city and makati city. Thanks and more power to you.
Dude, your view of the city from the Map is not a pinch on the reality. I have lived in PP for 13 years now and while the city is developing, it suffers from some chronic issues which needs addressing badly. That said Cambodia is a nice place and the people are quite welcoming, English is spoken widely, eating and drinking is the number one past time for most. With the recent desire to create more modern, higher standard products then staying in PP for a few nights will be a great experience for anyone.
I like that you took the time and effort to visit Cambodia and share with us your experience. Please help spread the proper pronunciation of our cities name. Example: Phnom Penh/Phnoom Peynn, Siem Reap/Seem Reab, Angkor Wat/Ungko Wat
*Asian countries look soo fucking cool. In Bangkok totally free commerce. I bought some socks off a guy just sitting on the street outside his house. BEST SOCKS EVER, no holes in them 4 years on!*
Please do Look into Kathmandu The busy, dense,polluted yet Beautiful, open zoning and a rapidly growing urban area in the green and small Kathmandu valley
True.They need it now and they need it fast.But good luck talking about that to the CPP.Those Hun Sen's cronies doesn't think that the people needed public transport since China already gave them 100 busses as aid and he prefers that the money goes to his and his other friends pockets
There are no car parks or areas for parking or even rules about parking. With the rise of the middle class this has halved the size of the streets and now Phnom Penh is just like a car park, horrible to try and drive around. Serious problems coming its way unless they modernise, and fast.
What they need is more public transport, not more privately owned cars. Privately owned cars are an inefficient blight on humanity, and are never the answer to any problem in the known universe.
Cities in Asia are quite impossible to find a car-park or parking area in the middle of the city except for East Asia. You just have to park your cars at a nearby office building or shopping mall then you can hop on a public transport or go to work
@@mikhailfranco Tell that to the Americans.Their passion for private cars brings the whole world except Japan and EU to ride privately owned cars everytime for everything.And now we're loving our cars so much that we doesn't wanna use public transport
@@SecondLifeTravels1 Lol read my comments again bud. I'm not talking even a bit about Americans buying cars in Phnom Penh. Don't know where you get that idea
As someone who moved there from many years in Thailand, I think it's high time they rename BKK to something less Thai sounding... heh heh. (BKK = Boeung Keng Kang - a very posh 'hood, not... Bangkok).
Yes it is.Phnom Penh at that time was a true paradise.Bow,it was the alter-ego of what will happen if Las Vegas was a capital city of a country and at the same time have huge wealth gap
The skyscrapers are ruining Phnom Penh, especially by the river. Before, they had rules limiting the height of buildings in the area around the Royal Palace. When I first went in 2010 there wasn't a single skyscraper by the river. Three years later there were several. They must be all over the place now, really killing the more relaxed atmosphere. The CBD should have been out of the historical area by the Riverside. Apparently a minister said 'tourists like big buildings' so the old laws were scrapped but they will have the opposite effect, of reducing tourists.
It's interesting to see from the perspective of people other than the Cambodian themselves. However, judging by looking through google street view offer no insight into the real world. A for the attempt, E for the actual representation of the situation of the city of Phnom Penh.
all the image you see was in 2012-2013 at the time google photo for street view, Cambodia now is changing alot and becoming another china, people in this country like to be chinese too, im feeling ashamed for my khmer.
Fantastic common sense. Why is this all so obvious to us, but unrecognized by planners and developers? (especially in the western world since 1950s, but also it seems, in modern extensions to PP). They are not stupid, so the only rational explanation is that they are psychopaths/sociopaths, totally lacking empathy with their fellow city dwellers, who profit from ill-considered property development, based on: * narrow property ownership and supply: powerful families, oligarchs, mafias, army/state ownership...etc * absence or corruption of any planning process: zone-based valuations, permit bribery, utility connection bribery...etc In some cases, this is also exasperated by the intellectual arrogance of architects and planners following the minimalist/brutalist tradition of Le Corbusier and the Bauhaus, who insist they know what is best for everyone, which is a typical authoritarian top-down elitist attitude, and also inevitably completely wrong.
Impressive how informative this video is and the fact you resort to google map and google earth to get your narrative through is awesome. You did your research man. Thanks for the video. Loved it. I’m from Phnom Penh.
The lack of zoning regulations separating commercial and residential buildings from commingling is one of my favorite features of the bustling metropolises of Southeast Asia. There’s a reason why Thailand, Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam are among the backpacking capitals of the world - there’s simply so much to see, do, eat and buy, all in highly dense and exciting urban environments.
In Nepal🇳🇵most houses have about 1-4 floor houses & a lot of them near the chowk (city-center) have shops of some sort in the ground floor while the upper floors act as residental areas as in people live in by giving rent to the owner of the house who also lives in the same house. The outer sub-urbs basically follow the same trend except with less shops. We also have stalls for people to eat & resturants everywhere. What we lack is walkable streets with footpaths, cycling infrastructure, trolly buses or trams, proper traffic lights, metro systems or trains of any sort. Cars, bikes, scooters, buses, trucks & traffic have ruined Nepal; You could say this for many Asian country more or less.
That lake was a gem when I stayed at a hostel with patios all along the banks in 2007. It was so sad when I returned to check it out a few years ago and the locals said it was filled in by "the Chinese".
fraslex that’s awful. Was it a natural lake?
Feels very organic, very human, and very alive, unlike the sterile suburb where I live in. I have to drive everywhere and absolutely hate driving.
I feel the exact same. I have the same issue with my suburb.
Real shame they trashed the White Building in favour of another casino. And that wasn't as bad as filling in the lake. Loved the place in 2001 when it was totally bonkers. City of Ghosts did a great job of capturing the city at that time. Great vid dude - really nailed it.
As the middle class increases, the demand for cars would increase too. And by the looks of it, parking and traffic would be a problem. This city badly needs a reliable transit system.
Impossible to get it in a near future.The city and the country is plagued with corruption.Hun Seen,the country's PM living his life with luxury cars and apartment complex filled by his private army.They just received about 50 bus from China as an aid.A lot of used busses from South Korea also made it's way to Cambodia like the bus who takes me from Siem Reap to Phnom Penh,a used Seoul-Gimpo shuttle bus!
Yup, and drivers need to follow the traffic law. It's insane how people drive there.
In Saigon they just drive motorbikes instead
@@cunnyman I've been to Phnom Penh many many times.Those newer buses thanks to China Aid doesn't help a lot to ease Phnom Penh's desperate needs of public transport. So don't have higher hopes on those newer busses . Especially if you only have around 100 of them
Tuk-tuk although it was cheap for tourists,it is not for the locals. My local translator there always have a hard time getting a tuk-tuk since most tuk-tuk drivers prefers taking on tourists instead of locals cause of higher payment and generous tip .Taxi are pretty rare and even if you get one,it isn't safe and comfortable enough.I was scammed $200 for a ride to the market from airport
Rich and educated people are not supposed to be unaccounted for a safety driving in the city.Unlike Bangkok,KL,and Jakarta who treats people the same in the eyes of the law,Phnom Penh doesn't do the same thing. Especially if you're luxury vehicles have the RCAF licensed plate.Police doesn't even dared enough to touch your vehicle.A dangerous thing for you but not for the richest as they can drink and drive or driving above the speed limit without fear of the police.Causing lost of lives or injuries is 98% guaranteed
I agree, I think the first step would be to put more larger buses with 2 articulated units (which have an accordion in the middle) instead of the usual smaller buses. The long-term solution would be to plan some type of tramway system (yes, it will be expensive, but it will pay off), tram tracks should be separated from the road, so that traffic jams don't affect the schedule. Also, there is a technique of raising the crosswalks to the level of sidewalks, so that each crosswalk acts as a large speedbump, not allowing to speed through it, this idea works very well in European cities.
Ive lived in Cambodia since I was a kid. Great job. You have a great narrative voice and brought humor to an informative video. Cheers!
Cambo Vlogs idol’s here😱❤️
Timeline of Phnom Penh
1372: Phnom Penh is officially founded.
1431: The city becomes the Cambodian capital for the first time.
1863: Cambodia is made a Protectorate of France.
1865: Phnom Penh becomes the capital again for the second time.
1860s-1930s: Phnom Penh becomes known as the “Paris of the Orient” as the French build mansions, boulevards, bridges, banks, parks, markets, churches, schools and more mansions in the city.
1953-1969: After 90 years of colonial rule Cambodia gains Independence from France. Phnom Penh becomes the coolest city in Asia, developing new and exciting styles in rock music, dance, design, literature, painting, cinema, architecture and cuisine.
1970-1975: US bombing triggers the first chapter of civil war. Refugees from the countryside pour into the city. The population swells to over 2 million.
1975-1978: The Killing Fields brings mass murder, starvation and exhaustion. Phnom Penh becomes a ghost town.
1979-1989: Soviet-backed Vietnamese invasion and occupation.
1993-1998: Monarchy restored, Khmer Rouge ceasefire and final end of civil war.
1998 to present: Cambodia has been the world’s sixth fastest growing economy for the last two decades now.
I've been binge watching your videos for about 5 hours now, and I've gotta say I love what you're doing. Every city you cover makes me want to travel to it, critique it with the same unbiased point of view I envy of you, enjoy all of its amenities, and generally amuse myself. Great work, man, keep it up!
I enjoy living in Phnom Penh!
As my remember, They’ve been starting equip the street view in Cambodia since 2012, So everything is changing and now Cambodia looks so different, and more modern.
Thanks for another well made and very interesting in depth analysis of a city! Definitely looking forward to watching your content in the future.
Greetings from Helsinki, Finland
The traffic of Phnom Penh is unimagined even for me,who lives in one of the cities with the worst traffic jam in SE Asia .Motorcycles passing around big lorries,rich shit racing around the wide avenue like it was a race track,and their crazy love for SUV and it's roads filled with people who are unable to drive and sadly,their cars bearing the royal insignia or military/state registration plate that just "untouchable" by the police.Good thing is,if you are a crook then Phnom Penh is the best city for you! Buying counterfeit valuable documents have never been so much easy in my entire life! Just bought a fake UK passport with my bonus money from Christmas and New Year's holiday. Now just need a huge bravery to try them
It's interesting but using Google street view (which dates from 2012) doesn't really reflect how the city looks now. The satellite images are up to date, and you can see a huge difference, for example when it switches between the new blocks to the north of Olympic Stadium and street view. The streets are much more congested with cars now, and the idea that it's an easy city to walk around is frankly ludicrous! The pavements are as often as not blocked up by parked vehicles, stalls and other obstacles etc that you usually have to walk on the road.
The island isn't Koh Pie! It's Koh Pich (pronounced like Pick), and the street view around there is extremely dated, that whole area has had a huge amount of construction in recent years. Also the island wasn't "built" in 2000, it gradually built up over the past 50 years. It was farmland till 2005, although it would sometimes become completely submerged when the river level rose. In 2005 the residents were evicted and it was shored up considerably before any major building construction began.
I agree. I love how the video is almost ridiculously positive about the things we all hate in Asia. Stuff like what you have said is frustrating for people that actually live there and tourists might find them unique and exciting.
No hate towards Western views over these minor stuff but sometimes, things like this can make something not so pleasant look as if it is fine. Just because we were born and live in such place, doesn't mean we love how it is.
And of course, bigger roads would be ideal but doing so will greatly affect the people along the streets.
It is quite difficult to alter the districts when the city structure was pre-dated since the French era and the government lacks the fund to truly make an organized city center. What it should've been was that the middle of the city consists of more business like a CBD and it gets less and less business focused as it spreads. But with everything spread all over the city. Thus, we have no CBD, urban, sub urban or anything.
Although, with recent Chinese investments, it is possible for the entirety of old Phnom Penh areas (the city keeps expanding) to be an actual CBD.
Here's hoping for a completely different world by 2025 or 2030.
Can you do Bankgkok and Chiang Mai, Thailand please
Bangkok is the dead end city, with highest number of dead end roads. Unless it fixes them and connect them up, it is doomed to have worst traffic jam in the world that can't be fix.
Lots of canals that were unuse or abandoned, lots of lost potential from too fast and not well planned urbanisation. That is what I can say for now, please Michael, have a look, it is nightmare to drive or even ride motorbike around it.
Worawat Li agreed. The city layout is like a mess but still wanna see his reaction though 🤣🤣
@@worawatli8952 you are right, I live there and that is what i like about it, i laugh and even though impractical way to have a city, it is most definitely interesting to look at.
Your country is already famous. So we need to see everywhere too.
Martin MK yeah, that’s true. There’re like, 100+ countries to see so...... let’s support him to make more vids!
Love this video! I haven't seen someone approach their TH-cam channel quite in this way, and I really like it a lot! I also agree with you 100% about how great of a livable city a city like Phnom Penh is, and much of Asia, for that matter. I've been living in Asia for 20+ years, and I have no desire to return back to the sedentary tv/couch/car/drive-thru lifestyle of the U.S. - not that there is anything wrong with that...
It’s not how phnom penh looks like when i was there in last week... google should update their map systems
Hope you start making videos again. You're a really underrated TH-camr.
0:37 Meanwhile in Chinese Phnom Penh literally means "golden side" (金边)
I find all your videos insightful, informative, and peaceful. Keep up the good work. I am glad I found your videos, hope you can do my city, Miami.
Impressive how informative this video is and the fact you resort to google map and google earth to get your narrative through is awesome. You did your research man. Thanks for the video. Loved it. I’m from Phnom Penh.
Phnom Penh and Hue in Vietnam were two of the most frustrating places to walk that I have experienced. These are scooter's cities.
I was born in Phnom Penh, and I grow up there as well.
lol bro- the 2013 street views look absolutely nothing like how the city looks now
Michael s is it better or worse?
@@coolx10249 better
Phnom Penh are amazing rich with Khmer local architecture, Royal palace, temple, old style wall, tower and heritage cultures.
Please do Metro Manila...
Uhm okay haha
@lee pol if he was impressed with Phnom Pehn, then i dont see how he'll hate Metro Manila. I've been to both cities and PP is comparable to the worst parts of Manila
Nothing is well-planned in Manila except for BGC,most of Makati,and Intramuros.The rest is all nothing but hell
imagine traffic when there's no zoning, no good public transport, narrow roads, no parking, no height restriction, no parking requirement. lol get rekt!
Lived and worked there for 4 years. 2014-2018. (Grew up in San Francisco.)
I hope you could do a video of metro manila which comprises of 16 cities,
where the central of manila has the pasig river dividing the oldest Chinatown in world and on the other side a Spanish walled city of Intramuros and the modern business districts of bonifacio global city and makati city.
Thanks and more power to you.
Yooooo, I can see my house from here.
Dude, your view of the city from the Map is not a pinch on the reality. I have lived in PP for 13 years now and while the city is developing, it suffers from some chronic issues which needs addressing badly.
That said Cambodia is a nice place and the people are quite welcoming, English is spoken widely, eating and drinking is the number one past time for most. With the recent desire to create more modern, higher standard products then staying in PP for a few nights will be a great experience for anyone.
Please do HCM/Saigon one :"))) , love your videos, such great insights.
Outstanding video with great information.
Hey, you forgot to mention the red light district; only two blocks from the royal palace. 😆
I like that you took the time and effort to visit Cambodia and share with us your experience. Please help spread the proper pronunciation of our cities name. Example: Phnom Penh/Phnoom Peynn, Siem Reap/Seem Reab, Angkor Wat/Ungko Wat
*Asian countries look soo fucking cool. In Bangkok totally free commerce. I bought some socks off a guy just sitting on the street outside his house. BEST SOCKS EVER, no holes in them 4 years on!*
Who sings the song at the end? I like it.
Please do Look into Kathmandu The busy, dense,polluted yet Beautiful, open zoning and a rapidly growing urban area in the green and small Kathmandu valley
excellent
Phnom phan need more public transit.
tommy wong penh* but yeah I agree with you
True.They need it now and they need it fast.But good luck talking about that to the CPP.Those Hun Sen's cronies doesn't think that the people needed public transport since China already gave them 100 busses as aid and he prefers that the money goes to his and his other friends pockets
One thing you have to understand about cambodian people...no highway is uncrossable...we just use our eyes.
Now a Paul McCartney parody! Seeing a theme here -- subbed! Lol
What song is that at the end? I really like it. It does seem like a Paul McCartney parody
@@adamg7730 - Vid creator's own lyrics / parody of "Silly Love Songs" :)
you went passed my friend's house lol
What’s the song at the end at the 23 min mark ?
More Southeast Asian cities please! ☺️
This is F%^&ing Perfect
Intro song??
Great video!
I have lived and worked in pp since 1998. It's become a horrible place with traffic congestion but the biggest and worsening problem is air pollution.
Make sure you do hanoi as well!
Phnom Penh is such a lovely little city.
"Just like many other south east asians, they're badasses and have motorbikes"
Phnenom-enal.
Good one
As a non english speaker, i would glad to find an english caption over any video you ve made. Good content though
Have you ever been to P.P.?
Can you do a video on Siem Reap? :)
thank to frenchy era and 50s-60s Sangkum Reas Niyum era. for built a great and unique design on roads.
after 90s, every thing got ruined, no future plans for road. everything look very confuse.
There are no car parks or areas for parking or even rules about parking. With the rise of the middle class this has halved the size of the streets and now Phnom Penh is just like a car park, horrible to try and drive around. Serious problems coming its way unless they modernise, and fast.
What they need is more public transport, not more privately owned cars.
Privately owned cars are an inefficient blight on humanity,
and are never the answer to any problem in the known universe.
Cities in Asia are quite impossible to find a car-park or parking area in the middle of the city except for East Asia. You just have to park your cars at a nearby office building or shopping mall then you can hop on a public transport or go to work
@@mikhailfranco Tell that to the Americans.Their passion for private cars brings the whole world except Japan and EU to ride privately owned cars everytime for everything.And now we're loving our cars so much that we doesn't wanna use public transport
@@handywijaya3689 It's not Americans buying cars here in Phnom Penh.
@@SecondLifeTravels1 Lol read my comments again bud. I'm not talking even a bit about Americans buying cars in Phnom Penh. Don't know where you get that idea
Wow, perfect
Can you do metro manila? Please thanks!!
I can tell you from personal experience that driving a motorcycle here is a real challenge!
Omg I just learned about my own city here than in my school...or had i never studied? >~
Do Kuala Lumpur next! Love your videos :D
Who knows what is that app❓
Google earth
Can you also do a review on Metro Manila or Cebu? Philippines.
If you'll make a topic about Philippines sure your subscribers will go up 😁
You ever been to phnom penh?
As someone who moved there from many years in Thailand, I think it's high time they rename BKK to something less Thai sounding... heh heh. (BKK = Boeung Keng Kang - a very posh 'hood, not... Bangkok).
Can you make a video like this about Bangkok.tbh bangkok’s city plan is really that bad
Please do a video on Metro Manila, the capital of the Philippines.
He stopped making videos
You should consider starting a Patreon, I love your channel and would like to see what you could do with a bigger budget.
Also do Portland, Oregon!
Pnompenh was better during the 1960s
As much as I would like to agree with you, it wasn't.
Economically, sure. But not in infrastructure.
Uh....*Pol Pot intensifies*
Yes it is.Phnom Penh at that time was a true paradise.Bow,it was the alter-ego of what will happen if Las Vegas was a capital city of a country and at the same time have huge wealth gap
"Phnom Penh was so much better than before the genocide that killed 1/3 of the people."
Thanks for the amazing insight there, Professor Alex.
The skyscrapers are ruining Phnom Penh, especially by the river. Before, they had rules limiting the height of buildings in the area around the Royal Palace. When I first went in 2010 there wasn't a single skyscraper by the river. Three years later there were several. They must be all over the place now, really killing the more relaxed atmosphere. The CBD should have been out of the historical area by the Riverside. Apparently a minister said 'tourists like big buildings' so the old laws were scrapped but they will have the opposite effect, of reducing tourists.
Please do one of my city, Quezon City in Metro Manila, Philippines.
If only it's as good as you said
1900 people lost their lives in Phnom Penh during 2017. You don't need a license for a bike under 125 cc. That should be changed.
Phnom Penh is like the early version of what bangkok has became tbqh
Love the Wings cover Michael! I second the suggestion to do Manila, Philippines!
It's interesting to see from the perspective of people other than the Cambodian themselves. However, judging by looking through google street view offer no insight into the real world. A for the attempt, E for the actual representation of the situation of the city of Phnom Penh.
Do Boston
Do the women speak enough English to be able to communicate? I don't mean bar girls,but the regular women living in Cambodia
Yes they do
Do one for exBritish colonies. I.e. Malaysia, ud see stark difference
do bangkok, you will hate it
Do jakarta , you will hate the layout of the city 😂
Organic road layout. Highways. Bad traffic.
do ho chi minh city
Pence-Hill...ur a funny dude
all the image you see was in 2012-2013 at the time google photo for street view, Cambodia now is changing alot and becoming another china, people in this country like to be chinese too, im feeling ashamed for my khmer.
Fantastic common sense.
Why is this all so obvious to us,
but unrecognized by planners and developers?
(especially in the western world since 1950s,
but also it seems, in modern extensions to PP).
They are not stupid, so the only rational explanation is that they are psychopaths/sociopaths, totally lacking empathy with their fellow city dwellers, who profit from ill-considered property development, based on:
* narrow property ownership and supply:
powerful families, oligarchs, mafias, army/state ownership...etc
* absence or corruption of any planning process:
zone-based valuations, permit bribery, utility connection bribery...etc
In some cases, this is also exasperated by the intellectual arrogance of architects and planners following the minimalist/brutalist tradition of Le Corbusier and the Bauhaus, who insist they know what is best for everyone, which is a typical authoritarian top-down elitist attitude, and also inevitably completely wrong.
Do Jakarta lolol
I think Bangkok would win hands down as the wildest. Best example of how not to build a city.
I didn’t t like Pnom penh. I prefer Saigon.
Alexandre Galin who care about you ? Good you don’t like my country you don’t need to come ok . I don’t like your country ether
@@rojanetouk Lol, amazing how you can be so sensitive. Grow up a bit. It s just a point of view.
At one point Saigon and Phnom Penh was actually part of the same country
rojanet ouk កំុខ្វល់ជាមួយពួកវា, ពួកស្បែកសរភាគច្រើនចូលចិត្តទៅកន្លែងណាដែលមាន បានិងស្រី ច្រើន,
Why are you even comparing? They’re two totally different cities. Saigon has 8 million people and Phnom Penh has 1.5 million, for starters.
Ugh, you're a libertarian, aren't you
Do Metro Manila, Philippines!!
Impressive how informative this video is and the fact you resort to google map and google earth to get your narrative through is awesome. You did your research man. Thanks for the video. Loved it. I’m from Phnom Penh.