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Tells the tale of two cities in Ho Chi Minh City. This book portrays the human costs of urban reorganization as the author explores the complex and sometimes contradictory experiences of individuals grappling with the forces of privatization in a socialist country.

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"Erik Harms's Luxury and Rubble is a work of fine-grained thick description that patiently walks readers through the rapid economic, cultural, and socio-spatial shifts that remade Ho Chi Minh City... superb, even-handed." Cross-Currents

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List of Illustrations Introduction: Luxury and Rubble Part I. Luxury 1. Civilizing the Wastelands: A Short History of Urban Development in Phu M? Hung 2. Civilization City 3. Exercising Consciousness: Self and Society in a Privatizing Space of Exclusion Part II. Rubble 4. Th? Thiem Futures Past: A Short History of Seeing without Seeing 5. Building a Civilized, Modern, and Sentimental City 6. From the Rubble Conclusion: Civility and Dispossession Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography Index

Luxury and Rubble

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      Publisher University of California Press
      Published 21 October 2016
      ISBN-13 9780520292512
      978-0520292512
      ISBN-10 0520292510
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      Urban communities / city life

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Tells the tale of two cities in Ho Chi Minh City. This book portrays the human costs of urban reorganization as the author explores the complex and sometimes contradictory experiences of individuals grappling with the forces of privatization in a socialist country.

      Trade Review
      "Erik Harms's Luxury and Rubble is a work of fine-grained thick description that patiently walks readers through the rapid economic, cultural, and socio-spatial shifts that remade Ho Chi Minh City... superb, even-handed." Cross-Currents

      Table of Contents
      List of Illustrations Introduction: Luxury and Rubble Part I. Luxury 1. Civilizing the Wastelands: A Short History of Urban Development in Phu M? Hung 2. Civilization City 3. Exercising Consciousness: Self and Society in a Privatizing Space of Exclusion Part II. Rubble 4. Th? Thiem Futures Past: A Short History of Seeing without Seeing 5. Building a Civilized, Modern, and Sentimental City 6. From the Rubble Conclusion: Civility and Dispossession Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography Index

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