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
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Harms, Erik (Anthropologist) (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Oakland, California : University of California Press, 2016.
Series:Asia--local studies/global themes ; 32.
Subjects:
City planning > Vietnam > Ho Chi Minh City.
Anthropology.
Asian history.
History.
Humanities.
Regional and national history.
Social and cultural anthropology, ethnography Mod Social and cultural anthropology, ethnography.
Society and social sciences Society and social sciences.
Sociology and anthropology.
Sociology.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
City planning
Vietnam > Ho Chi Minh City
Ho Chi Minh City
Vietnam
Urban landscape
Urban reorganization
Commercial development
Residential development
e-books.
Livres numériques.
Online Access:Texto completo
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, and sentimental city
  • From the rubble
  • Conclusion : civility and dispossession.

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