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

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"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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Main Author: Harms, Erik (Anthropologist) (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Oakland, California : University of California Press, 2016.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
City planning.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
Sociology.
Sociology and anthropology.
Society and social sciences Society and social sciences.
Social and cultural anthropology, ethnography Mod Social and cultural anthropology, ethnography.
Regional and national history.
Humanities.
History.
Asian history.
Anthropology.
City planning > Vietnam > Ho Chi Minh City.
Vietnam > Ho Chi Minh City.
Livres numeriques.
e-books.
Electronic books.
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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.

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