Luxury and Rubble : Civility and Dispossession in the New Saigon / / Erik Harms

• Autore: Harms Erik (Anthropologist)
• Pubblicazione: Berkeley, CA : , : University of California Press, , [2016]; ©2016
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (x, 287 pages) : illustrations; PDF, digital file(s)
• Disciplina: 307.1/216095977
• Soggetto topico: City planning - Vietnam - Ho Chi Minh City
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Soggetto non controllato: 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
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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.
• Sommario/riassunto: "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 Vietnam as 'New Urban Zones.' These programs, which were born in the early 1990s, are steadily reorganizing the urban landscape in cities across the country. For many Vietnamese, they are a symbol of the country's emergence into global modernity and post-socialist economic reforms. However, they are also sites of great contestation, sparking land disputes and controversies over how to compensate evicted residents. This is a vivid portrayal of urban reorganization along deeply human terms, which delves into the complex and sometimes contradictory experiences of individuals grappling with the forces of privatization in a socialist country"--Provided by publisher.
• Titolo autorizzato: Luxury and Rubble
• ISBN: 0-520-96601-5
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 996328038903316
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. di Salerno
• Serie: Asia--local studies/global themes ; ; 32.