Luxury and rubble : civility and dispossession in the new Saigon / Erik Harms.
Luxury and rubble : civility and dispossession in the new Saigon / Erik Harms.
Luxury and rubble : civility and dispossession in the new Saigon / Erik Harms.
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Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2017]
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G 2017/1931
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English
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x, 287 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; 23 cm.
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text
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unmediated
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volume
Contents
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 -- Thư Thiêm futures past : a short history of seeing without seeing -- Building a civilized, modern, and sentime...
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Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2017]
Place of Publication
California
Date Published
[2017]
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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 Vietnam as 'New Urban Zones.' These programs, which wer...
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Luxury and rubble : civility and dispossession in the new Saigon / Erik Harms.
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Asia: local studies/global themes ; 32
Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-274) and index.
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G 2017/1931
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74VKVaJODQ7A
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKVaJODQ7A
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ISBN
9780520292512 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
0520292510 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
DDC
307.1216095977
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991024101018602626
