The Constructive Destruction

This thesis explores the opportunity of the involvement of landscape architecture in Cambodia’s ongoing decades-long postwar recovery process, particularly on the issue of unexploded ordnances (UXOs).

Through strategically and selectively aligning the once costly and destructive demining methods, with the implementation of landscape infrastructures and sustainable landscape practices, it reconceives the devastating problem as unique constructive opportunities, and capitalizes on these disturbances in landscape for the mitigation of major environmental issues that continue to challenge the country of Cambodia in its development and recovery from war.