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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Hovedforfatter: Harms, Erik (Anthropologist) (Author)
Format: Electronisk eBog
Sprog:engelsk
Udgivet: Oakland, California : University of California Press, 2016.
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Indholdsfortegnelse:
  • 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.