This book examines the struggle of residents of four slums in the heart of the Cambodian capital, Phnom Penh, to remain in the city in the face of commercial redevelopment pressures during the first decade of the 21st century. In 2003, following years of forced evictions of the poor from the city center, the Royal Government of Cambodia authorized the redevelopment of four city center slums as pilots for a major slum upgrading campaign, through the innovative technique of land sharing. The study assesses the extent to which the redevelopment projects succeeded in providing slum dwellers with...