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Saigon's edge : on the margins of Ho Chi Minh city / / Erik Harms



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Autore: Harms Erik, Ph. D. Visualizza persona
Titolo: Saigon's edge : on the margins of Ho Chi Minh city / / Erik Harms Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, c2011
Edizione: 1st ed.
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (310 p.)
Disciplina: 307.7609597/7
Soggetto topico: Urbanization - Vietnam - Ho Chi Minh City
Urban anthropology - Vietnam - Ho Chi Minh City
City and town life - Vietnam - Ho Chi Minh City
Sociology, Urban - Vietnam - Ho Chi Minh City
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Nota di contenuto: Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Glossary; Introduction: Saigon, Inside Out; Part I. Social Edginess; Part II. Space, Time, and Urban Expansion; Part III. Realizing the Ideal; Conclusion: What Edges Do; Notes; Bibliography; Index
Sommario/riassunto: Much of the world's population inhabits the urban fringe, an area that is neither fully rural nor urban. Hoc Mon, a district that lies along a key transport corridor on the outskirts of Ho Chi Minh City, epitomizes one of those places. In ""Saigon's Edge,"" Erik Harms explores life in Hoc Mon, putting forth a revealing perspective on how rapid urbanization impacts the people who live at the intersection of rural and urban worlds. Unlike the idealized Vietnamese model of urban space, Hoc Mon is between worlds, neither outside nor inside but always uncomfortably both. With particular attention t
Titolo autorizzato: Saigon's edge  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-4529-4624-8
0-8166-7663-1
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910813273703321
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