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.

埃里克·哈姆斯博士（耶鲁大学）将调查胡志明市两个新城区的城市景观的拆除和重建。第一个地点，西贡南部，已基本完成，并逐渐成为人口。第二个地点，Thu Thiêm，尚未建成，但最近批准的场地清理和建设将驱逐所有现有居民。这两个网站都提出了促进“文明的城市生活”，并提供了一个窗口，让人们了解推动和出现在城市发展项目中的象征性、意识形态、物质、经济和社会力量。该研究将记录不同行为者赋予“城市文明”概念的意义，建设城市文明的想法和计划最终如何塑造建筑环境，生活在这些地点最终如何改变最初告知他们的想法，以及新城市空间的建设如何改变越南城市公民的意义。研究人员将与越南人类学家合作，（1）拍摄、绘制和存档景观的空间变化;（2）采用民族志研究方法的混合，包括城市土地使用的空间分析，报纸和其他文献资料的分析，参与观察，以及对居民，流离失所家庭，官员，规划者，开发商和建设者。这项研究很重要，因为它利用了一个及时的机会，以评估如何戏剧性的城市转型都响应和改变官方和流行的概念，目前推动快速城市转型在许多发展中国家的许多地方。通过研究这些地点有争议的城市化和发展愿景，研究将阐明城市公民权利如何在正式的公民话语在很大程度上受到限制的空间中进行谈判。从各方面利益攸关方收集的数据将为决策者和规划者提供信息，从而促进更可持续和文化敏感的城市发展。资助这项研究还建立了国际研究合作，并支持学生培训。