Gentrification in Ancient Angkor - The Atlantic
The Atlantic Unearthing an Origin Story for Gentrification The growth of the medieval city of Angkor involved wealthy elites pushing people off the land they had made valuable. May 11, 2021 Thierry Falise / LightRocket / Getty Updated at 9:53 a.m. ET on May 12, 2021. Historians have always assumed that the medieval city of Angkor, today located in Cambodia, was huge, simply based on how much land its kings commanded. From the ninth to the 15th centuries, Angkor was the capital of the Khmer empire, which at its zenith stretched across modern Cambodia, Laos, Thailand, and Vietnam. The city was ...
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