Urbanization in Vietnam

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgement -- Introduction -- Khương Hạ now and then -- Hà Nôi: The City of the Rising Dragon -- Organization of the book -- Notes -- 1. Urban spacial reconfiguration -- Introduction -- Khương Hạ, a Vietnamese village -- Historical spatial configuration: the hamlet or xóm -- The hamlets of Khương Hạ -- Rebuilding living quarters -- Urban amenities and an improved standard of living -- Negative environmental impacts of informal urbanization -- Notes -- 2. Land tenure, property rights, and urban development -- Property rights and land tenure -- Land as a commodity -- Significance of the real estate market -- The new economic model: the rental market -- Notes -- 3. Farming at the edge of the city -- Introduction -- Farming: a way of life -- The seasonal cycle of farming -- The end of farming -- Notes -- 4. Making a living in the city -- Women as the new entrepreneurs -- The market place -- Narratives of women in the trade industry -- Women's small businesses -- Competing with women's businesses -- Seasonal businesses -- The outsiders: the peddlers -- Notes -- 5. The urban village -- Introduction -- Centers of worship -- Living to the rhythm of lunar festivities -- Wedding ceremonies -- Funeral ritual, đám Tang -- Notes -- 6. Gender relations in the new urban landscape -- Gender preference and adoption -- Gender equality in education -- Migration and change in residential patterns -- Women and property rights -- Women's networks and relationships -- The mother- and daughter-in-law relationship -- Mother/daughter relationship -- Notes -- 7. Conclusion: the building of a global city -- Local identity in a globalizing city -- Gender relations and post-socialist reconfiguration of urban space -- Notes -- References -- Index.

"Most studies on urbanisation focus on the move of rural people to cities and the impact this has, both on the cities to which the people have moved, and on the rural communities they have left. This book, on the other hand, considers the impact on rural communities of the physical expansion of cities. Based on extensive original research over a long period in one settlement, a rural commune which over the course of the last two decades has become engulfed by Hanoi's urban spread, the book explores what happens when village people become engulfed in the city - when agriculture is abandoned, population density rises, the value of land increases, people have to make a living in the city, and the dynamics of family life, including gender relations, are profoundly altered. This book charts these developments over time, and sets urbanisation in Vietnam in the wider context of urbanisation in Southeast Asia and Asia more generally"--

"Most studies on urbanisation focus on the move of rural people to cities and the impact this has, both on the cities to which the people have moved, and on the rural communities they have left. This book, on the other hand, considers the impact on rural communities of the physical expansion of cities. Based on extensive original research over a long period in one settlement, a rural commune which over the course of the last two decades has become engulfed by Hanoi's urban spread, the book explores what happens when village people become engulfed in the city - when agriculture is abandoned, population density rises, the value of land increases, people have to make a living in the city, and the dynamics of family life, including gender relations, are profoundly altered. This book charts these developments over time, and sets urbanisation in Vietnam in the wider context of urbanisation in Southeast Asia and Asia more generally"--