Luxury and Rubble : Civility and Dispossession in the New Saigon / / Erik Harms.

"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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Place / Publishing House:Berkeley, CA : : University of California Press, , [2016]
©2016
Year of Publication:2016
Language:English
Series:Asia--local studies/global themes ; 32.
Physical Description:1 online resource (x, 287 pages) :; illustrations; PDF, digital file(s).
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Table of 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 sentimental city
  • From the rubble
  • Conclusion : civility and dispossession.