Luxury and rubble : civility and dispossession in the new Saigon /
"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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Format: | Electronic eBook |
Language: | Inglés |
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Oakland, California :
University of California Press,
2016.
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Series: | Asia--local studies/global themes ;
32. |
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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.