Land politics and livelihoods on the margins of Hanoi, 1920-2010 / / Danielle Labbé

• Autore: Labbé Danielle
• Pubblicazione: Vancouver, BC : , : UBC Press, , [2014]; ©2014
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (229 p.)
• Disciplina: 307.7609
• Soggetto topico: Urbanization - Vietnam - Hanoi - History; City planning - Vietnam - Hanoi - History
• Soggetto geografico: Hanoi (Vietnam) Social conditions 20th century; Hanoi (Vietnam) Social conditions 21st century
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: The early urban transition (1920-40) -- Uneven socialist revolutions (1940-65) -- Eating by points and coupons is not enough (1965-80) -- The new urban territorial order (1980-2010) -- Land for fresh ghosts, land for dry ghosts.
• Sommario/riassunto: In the late 1990s, planning authorities in the Vietnamese capital of Hanoi pushed the imaginary line between city and country several kilometres westward, engulfing dozens of rural settlements. As state policies forced rapid urbanization, villagers whose families had farmed the land for generations saw rice fields levelled, irrigation canals filled, and large avenues flanked by residential towers, big-box stores, and office buildings spring up. Danielle Labb� considers a century of change to the settlement of Hoa Muc � a community that underwent a rapid transition from rural village to urban neighbourhood. Through extensive research in the community, Labb� studies not only the changing lives of villagers, but also the state regulations and territorialization projects that drove these changes on the outskirts of Hanoi, and the early urban changes in the decades that preceded the reforms and continue to influence the area's urbanization. Despite the new buildings, the end of farming activities, and the arrival of a large new population, the former villagers still consider Hoa Muc their homeland. The compelling story of this single village is both a portrait of a population that has endured despite drastic upheavals and a new analytical window onto Vietnam's ongoing urban transition.
• Titolo autorizzato: Land politics and livelihoods on the margins of Hanoi, 1920-2010
• ISBN: 0-7748-2667-3; 0-7748-2669-X
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910790755003321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II