Review of Sidewalk City Remapping Public Space in Ho Chi Minh City

Abstract

This title re-maps public space in order to unveil contemporary spatial practices and to explore future possibilities. In the midst of historic migration and urbanisation, our limited public spaces are being contested and re-conceptualised in cities around the world with innovative experiments in some places and bloody battles in others. This book uses the case of sidewalks in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam where a vibrant everyday urbanism takes place in flexible patterns that defy conventional conceptions of public space. 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.