{"product_id":"saigons-edge-on-the-margins-of-ho-chi-minh-city-9780816656066","title":"Saigons Edge  On the Margins of Ho Chi Minh City","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eExploring the places where the rural and urban intersect, where many of the world’s people live.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"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. \u003ci\u003eSaigon’s Edge \u003c\/i\u003eis 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. \u003ci\u003eSaigon’s Edge\u003c\/i\u003e sets a new benchmark on how to study the urban form, capitalist, socialist, and everything in between.\" —Ralph Litzinger, Duke University\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e Glossary\u003cbr\u003e Introduction: Saigon, Inside Out\u003cbr\u003e Part I. Social Edginess\u003cbr\u003e 1. Bittersweet Transitions: Urbanization on the Fringe of the City\u003cbr\u003e 2. Power and Exclusion on the Edge: The Conflation of Rural and Urban Spaces\u003cbr\u003e Part II. Space, Time, and Urban Expansion\u003cbr\u003e 3. Future Orientations in the Country of Memory: Social Conceptions of Time\u003cbr\u003e 4. Negotiating Time and Space: Household, Labor, Land, and Movement\u003cbr\u003e Part III. Realizing the Ideal\u003cbr\u003e 5. The Road to Paradise: Building the Trans-Asia Highway \u003cbr\u003e 6. The Problem of Urban Civilization on Saigon’s Edge\u003cbr\u003e Conclusion: What Edges Do\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography\u003cbr\u003e Index","brand":"University of Minnesota Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49405960749399,"sku":"9780816656066","price":19.79,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780816656066.jpg?v=1730494054","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/saigons-edge-on-the-margins-of-ho-chi-minh-city-9780816656066","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}