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Subject(s)

• Urbanization—Vietnam—Hanoi Region—History—20th century [Browse]
• Urbanization—Vietnam—Hanoi Region—History—21st century [Browse]
• Hanoi Region (Vietnam)—Social conditions—20th century [Browse]
• Hanoi Region (Vietnam)—Social conditions—21st century [Browse]
• Vietnam—Rural conditions [Browse]

Series

• Routledge contemporary Southeast Asia series ; 74. [More in this series]
• Routledge contemporary Southeast Asia series ; 74 [More in this series]

Summary note

"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"-- Provided by publisher.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references (pages 137-143) and index.

ISBN

• 9781138855731 ((hardback))
• 1138855731 ((hardback))

LCCN

2015005695

OCLC

909025598

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