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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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Harms, Erik (Anthropologist) (auteur.)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oakland, California : University of California Press, 2016.
Series:Asia: Local studies/global themes ; 32.
Subjects:
City planning > Vietnam > Ho Chi Minh City.
Urbanisme > Viêt-nam > Hô Chi Minh-Ville.
City planning.
Vietnam > Ho Chi Minh City.
Electronic books.
e-books.
Livres numériques.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : luxury and rubble
  • Pt.1. Luxury
  • 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
  • Pt.2. Rubble
  • Thư Thiêm futures past : a short history of seeing without seeing
  • Building a civilized, modern, andsentimental city
  • From the rubble
  • Conclusion : civility and dispossession.