Sidewalk City : Remapping Public Space in Ho Chi Minh City / Annette Miae Kim.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kim, Annette Miae, Author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sidewalks--Vietnam--Ho Chi Minh City.

Sidewalks.

Public spaces--Vietnam--Ho Chi Minh City.

Public spaces.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (263 p.)

Place of Publication:

Chicago : University of Chicago Press, [2015]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

For most, the term "public space" conjures up images of large, open areas: community centers for meetings and social events; the ancient Greek agora for political debates; green parks for festivals and recreation. In many of the world's major cities, however, public spaces like these are not a part of the everyday lives of the public. Rather, business and social lives have always been conducted along main roads and sidewalks. With increasing urban growth and density, primarily from migration and immigration, rights to the sidewalk are being hotly contested among pedestrians, street vendors, property owners, tourists, and governments around the world. With Sidewalk City, Annette Miae Kim provides the first multidisciplinary case study of sidewalks in a distinctive geographical area. She focuses on Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, a rapidly growing and evolving city that throughout its history, her multicultural residents have built up alternative legitimacies and norms about how the sidewalk should be used. Based on fieldwork over 15 years, Kim developed methods of spatial ethnography to overcome habitual seeing, and recorded both the spatial patterns and the social relations of how the city's vibrant sidewalk life is practiced. In Sidewalk City, she transforms this data into an imaginative array of maps, progressing through a primer of critical cartography, to unveil new insights about the importance and potential of this "idian public space. This richly illustrated and fascinating study of Ho Chi Minh City's sidewalks shows us that it is possible to have an aesthetic sidewalk life that is inclusive of multiple publics' aspirations and livelihoods, particularly those of migrant vendors.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Acknowledgments

1. Seen and Unseen: Ho Chi Minh City's Sidewalk Life

2. Tropical Paris and Chinatown: The History and Resilience of Ho Chi Minh City's Sidewalks

3. Looking Again: Power and Critical Cartography

4. Mapping the Unmapped: Mixed-Use Sidewalk Spaces

5. Drawing New Lines on the Pavement: Street Vendors and Property Rights in Public Space

6. The Tourist Map: Altering Visions of What Sidewalks Are and Could Be

7. Reconsidering Sidewalks as Public Space

Endnotes

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 24. Apr 2020)

Other Format:

Print version: Kim, Annette Miae. Sidewalk city : remapping public space in Ho Chi Minh City.

OCLC:

906576927