Luxury and Rubble : Civility and Dispossession in the New Saigon

Luxury and Rubble Civility and Dispossession in the New Saigon

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"Luxury and Rubble is the tale of two cities within a city. It is the story of two master-planned, mixed-use residential and commercial developments that are changing the face of Ho Chi Minh City. The two developments that Erik Harms examines are examples of urban development projects known in...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Harms, Erik (Anthropologist), author (author)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berkeley, CA : University of California Press 2016
[2016]
Edición:1st ed
Colección:Asia--local studies/global themes ; 32.
Materias:
City planning > Vietnam > Ho Chi Minh City.
academic.
city development.
city living.
civilization.
class difference.
class warfare.
contemporary.
economic.
economy.
free market.
global.
income disparity.
international.
modern world.
personal space.
politics.
rich and poor.
saigon.
scholarly.
social issues.
social problems.
urban areas.
urban development.
urban infrastructure.
vietnam.
Electronic books.
Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009427913906719
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Civilizing the wastelands : a short history of urban development in Phú Mỹ Hưng
  • Civilization city
  • Exercising consciousness : self and society in a privatizing space of exclusion
  • Thư Thiêm futures past : a short history of seeing without seeing
  • Building a civilized, modern, and sentimental city
  • From the rubble
  • Conclusion : civility and dispossession.

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