Luxury and rubble : civility and dispossession in the new Saigon /

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Author / Creator:	Harms, Erik (Anthropologist), auteur.
Imprint:	Oakland, California : University of California Press, 2016. ©2016
Description:	1 ressource en ligne (x, 288 pages) : illustrations, maps.
Language:	English
Series:	Asia: local studies/global themes ; 32 Asia: Local studies/global themes ; 32.
Subject:	City planning -- Vietnam -- Ho Chi Minh City. City planning. Vietnam -- Ho Chi Minh City. e-books.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12331184

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ISBN:	0520966015 9780520966017 0520292510 9780520292512
Notes:	Comprend des références bibliographiques (pages 229-274) et unindex.
Summary:	"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 ofprivatization in a socialist country"--Provided by publisher.

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