Urban Demolition, Reconstruction, and the Culture of "Civilized Living" in Ho Chi Minh City's New Urban Zones

胡志明市新城区的城市拆迁与“文明生活”文化

• 批准号: 1026754
• 负责人: Erik Harms
• 金额: $ 22.5万
• 依托单位: Yale University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2010
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2010-09-15 至 2013-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1026754&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Urban; Demolition; Reconstruction; Culture; Civilized

Dr. Erik Harms (Yale University) will investigate the demolition and reconstruction of the urban landscape in two of Ho Chi Minh City's New Urban Zones. The first site, Saigon South, has been largely completed and is gradually becoming populated. The second site, Thu Thiêm, has not yet been built, but recently approved site clearance and construction will evict all of the current residents. Both sites propose to foster "civilized urban living," and offer a window into the symbolic, ideological, material, economic, and social forces that drive and emerge from urban development projects. The research will document the meaning different actors ascribe to the concept of "urban civilization," how ideas and plans for building urban civilization ultimately shape the built environment, how living in these sites ultimately transforms the ideas that first informed them, and how the construction of new urban spaces transforms what it means to be an urban Vietnamese citizen. Working alongside Vietnamese anthropologists, the researcher will, (1) photograph, map, and archive spatial changes to the landscape; and (2) employ a mix of ethnographic research methods including spatial analysis of urban land-use, analysis of newspapers and other documentary materials, participant observation, and formal ethnographic interviews with a cross-section of residents, displaced households, officials, planners, developers and builders. This research is important because it takes advantage of a timely opportunity to evaluate how dramatic urban transformations both respond to and transform official and popular conceptions currently driving rapid urban transformation in many parts of the developing world. By studying contested visions of urbanization and development at these sites, the research will illuminate how urban citizenship rights are negotiated in spaces where formal civic discourse is largely circumscribed. Data collected from a cross section of stakeholders will inform policymakers and planners, thus contributing to more sustainable and culturally sensitive urban development. Funding this research also builds international research collaborations and supports student training.

耶鲁大学埃里克·哈姆斯（Erik Harms）博士将调查胡志明市两个新的城市区域中城市景观的拆除和重建。第一个地点Saigon South已在很大程度上完成，并且正在逐渐被人口组成。第二个地点Thu Thiem尚未建造，但最近批准的现场清除和建设将驱逐所有当前的居民。这两个遗址都建议促进“文明的城市生活”，并为驱动着城市发展项目的象征，理想，物质，经济和社会力量提供窗口。这项研究将记录到“城市文明”概念的含义，建立城市文明的思想和计划最终如何塑造建筑环境，最终生活在这些地点中如何改变首先告知他们的思想以及新的城市空间的建设如何改变成为城市越南公民的含义。研究人员将与越南人类学家一起工作，（1）景观的照片，地图和档案空间变化； （2）员工的民族志研究方法的组合，包括对城市土地利用的空间分析，报纸和其他纪录片材料的分析，参与者的观察以及与居民，流离失所的家庭，官员，计划者，开发商，开发商和建筑商的横截面进行正式的人种学访谈。这项研究很重要，因为它利用了及时的机会来评估当前在发展中国家许多地方推动快速城市转型的官方概念以及转变官方和流行概念的戏剧性变化。通过研究这些站点的城市化和发展的有争议的愿景，该研究将阐明在正式的公民话语大部分限制的空间中如何协商城市公民权利。从利益相关者的横截面收集的数据将为决策者和计划者提供通知，从而为更可持续和文化敏感的城市发展做出了贡献。资助这项研究还建立了国际研究合作，并支持学生培训。