| Description |
1 online resource (xviii, 403 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates) : color illustrations, maps (some color) |
| Contents |
Ruination -- Annihilation -- Interlude: Urban Fragments -- Evacuation -- Interlude: Urban Fragments -- Solidarity -- Reconstruction -- Spirited Internationalism -- Interlude: Urban Fragments -- Rational Planning -- Interlude: Urban Fragments -- Utopian Housing -- Obsolescence -- Indiscipline -- Decay -- Renovation -- Revaluation -- Conclusion The Future of Utopias Past |
| Summary |
"Following a decade of United States bombing campaigns that obliterated northern Vietnam, East Germany helped Vietnam rebuild in an act of socialist solidarity. In Building Socialism Christina Schwenkel examines the utopian visions of an expert group of Vietnamese and East German urban planners who sought to transform the devastated industrial town of Vinh into a model socialist city. Drawing on archival and ethnographic research in Vietnam and Germany with architects, engineers, construction workers, and tenants in Vinh's mass housing complex, Schwenkel explores the material and affective dimensions of urban possibility, and the quick fall of Vinh's new built environment into unplanned obsolescence. She analyzes the tensions between aspirational infrastructure and postwar uncertainty to show how design models and practices that circulated between the socialist North and the decolonizing South underwent significant modification to accommodate alternative cultural logics and ideas about urban futurity. By documenting the building of Vietnam's first planned city and its aftermath of decay and repurposing, Schwenkel argues that underlying the ambivalent and often unpredictable responses to modernist architectural forms were anxieties about modernity and the future of socialism itself"-- Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on October 14, 2020) |
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digitized 2021. HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL |
| Subject |
City planning -- Vietnam -- Vinh -- German influences
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Urbanization -- Vietnam -- Vinh -- History -- 20th century
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Architecture, German -- Vietnam -- Vinh -- History -- 20th century
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Architecture -- Political aspects -- Vietnam -- Vinh -- History -- 20th century
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
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Architecture, German
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Architecture -- Political aspects
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Urbanization
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Vietnam -- Vinh
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2020016883 |
| ISBN |
9781478090656 |
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1478090650 |
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1478012609 |
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9781478011064 |
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1478011068 |
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9781478012603 |
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