Description
Book SynopsisExploring the places where the rural and urban intersect, where many of the world’s people live.
Trade Review"Sad and tragic, and at times funny and full of hope, Erik Harms shows how people live in the murky zones of the urban-rural divide, in the runoff, the debris, and wasteland of a now relentless urban industrial expansion. Saigon’s Edge is a wake up call for all of us who study the global city: socialist cities in the throes of global integration and world capitalist utopian imaginings have powerful stories to tell that we cannot afford to ignore. Saigon’s Edge sets a new benchmark on how to study the urban form, capitalist, socialist, and everything in between." —Ralph Litzinger, Duke University
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments
Glossary
Introduction: Saigon, Inside Out
Part I. Social Edginess
1. Bittersweet Transitions: Urbanization on the Fringe of the City
2. Power and Exclusion on the Edge: The Conflation of Rural and Urban Spaces
Part II. Space, Time, and Urban Expansion
3. Future Orientations in the Country of Memory: Social Conceptions of Time
4. Negotiating Time and Space: Household, Labor, Land, and Movement
Part III. Realizing the Ideal
5. The Road to Paradise: Building the Trans-Asia Highway
6. The Problem of Urban Civilization on Saigon’s Edge
Conclusion: What Edges Do
Notes
Bibliography
Index
