Muang Kasy : road into fort

Photographer

Halpern, Joel M. (Joel Martin), 1929-

Date

• 1969

Summary

• The building of new roads, even as far back as the 1950s, led to important changes in trading and settlement patterns as villagers moved to be closer to or even on the road and, in addition to marketing their own goods, became trading centers. Administrative functions often followed. See Lao Project Papers, especially no. 18, "Rural and Urban Economies."