Tube Housing as Dominant System and Everyday Urban Culture of Saigon-Ho Chi Minh City

2020 ◽  
Vol 55 (6) ◽  
pp. 801-817
Author(s):  
Huyen Truong-Young ◽  
Trevor Hogan
Keyword(s):  
21St Century ◽  
Urban Form ◽  
Urban Culture ◽  
Housing System ◽  
Ho Chi Minh City ◽  
Informal Housing ◽  
Mass Housing ◽  
City Planners

Saigon-Ho Chi Minh City (HCMC) is a typical 21st-century mega-city coping with informal hyper-growth. Government planners are under pressure to provide mass housing, transit and utilities. Yet HCMC has developed a distinctive and effective homegrown informal housing system based on ‘tube housing’. This system of dense housing, motorcycle transport and laneways embodies an integrated everyday urban culture whereby each of its purposes (work, commerce, rest and recreation) in turn shapes the whole urban form. As such, it is argued that these everyday forms of urbanism should be respected and incorporated by city planners into their masterplans rather than be viewed as anachronistic, illegal forms to be overcome and deconstructed.

Redefining Frenchness through Urban Music and Literature: The Case of Rapper-Writers Abd Al Malik and Disiz

2018 ◽  
pp. 131-146
Author(s):  
Stève Puig
Keyword(s):  
21St Century ◽  
Urban Culture ◽  
Essential Element ◽  
Music And Literature ◽  
Dominant Discourse ◽  
Counter Narrative ◽  
Urban Music ◽  
Interesting Development

An essential element of urban culture is rap, which has grown progressively in importance to and for post-migratory postcolonial minorities since the mid-1980s. One interesting development in the last decade is the emergence of a group of rapper-writers, including Abd Al Malik or Disiz, who use various platforms to offer a counter-narrative to dominant discourse on the banlieues. Both artists, who draw on similar influences, move across and fuse genres to redefine Frenchness in the 21st century and to imagine what it is to be an artist in the instance of what Marie-Claude Smouts has called ‘the postcolonial situation’.

scholarly journals Drama in Ho Chi Minh City literature and art life

2015 ◽  
Vol 18 (4) ◽  
pp. 47-60
Author(s):  
Thuy Trung Luu
Keyword(s):  
20Th Century ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Performance Art ◽  
Early Time ◽  
High Time ◽  
Ho Chi Minh City ◽  
Late 20Th Century ◽  
Early 21St Century ◽  
The Future ◽  
History Of

In the history of Vietnamese drama, Saigon was one of the places absorbing Western drama from the early time. Although drama in Saigon-Ho Chi Minh City didn’t develop in a smooth and straight way, it was a continuous and unbroken process. This process brought in strong development of drama in Ho Chi Minh city in two decades of the late 20th century and the early 21st century. However, in recent years, drama in Ho Chi Minh City seems to proceed slowly, which reflects some irrational aspects from drama script, performance art to performance operation. Therefore, it’s high time to review the whole history of drama in Saigon-Ho Chi Minh City to collect experiences for the steady development of drama in this City in the future.

A Typo-Morphological Study: The Cmc Industrial Mass Housing District, Lefke, Northern Cyprus

2013 ◽  
Vol 38 (2) ◽  
pp. 16-30
Author(s):  
Nevter Zafer Cömert ◽  
Sebnem Önal Hoskara
Keyword(s):  
Urban Form ◽  
Morphological Study ◽  
Morphological Characteristics ◽  
Urban Morphology ◽  
Public Buildings ◽  
North West ◽  
Mass Housing ◽  
Morphological Studies ◽  
Urban Pattern ◽  
Set Up

With the increasing number of universities in the country, research on urban form and architecture—with a focus on historic settlements—has accelerated in Cyprus in the last fifteen years. Lefke, a small traditional medieval town located on north-west Cyprus, warrants a detailed urban morphological study, as its traditional urban pattern has been shaped by a medieval character. Within its overall organic urban pattern, there are well-scaled narrow streets, a number of public buildings and irregularly shaped public spaces at the intersection of streets and/or in front of public buildings. Lefke's morphological characteristics, which have developed throughout many years, have been significantly impacted by British influences, as the Cyprus Mines Corporation (CMC), established in 1916, turned Lefke into an industrial town. The CMC district, which is the first industrial mass housing district in Cyprus, has uniquely impacted Lefke's urban patterns and still defines the morphological characteristics of the town today. Accordingly, this paper first explores urban morphology based on two pioneering morphological studies: Gianfranco Cannigia's theories of typo-morphological understanding, and the evolutionary insights of M.R.G. Conzen. The ultimate goal is to set up a typo-morphological basis for the CMC industrial mass housing district, which will drive future interventions, design and planning policies towards its conservation and sustainability.

Istanbul between Civilization and Discontent

1994 ◽  
Vol 10 ◽  
pp. 57-74 ◽  
Author(s):  
Asu Aksoy ◽  
Kevin Robins
Keyword(s):  
Soviet Union ◽  
Cultural Identity ◽  
Urban Form ◽  
Urban Culture ◽  
International Order ◽  
The Soviet Union ◽  
The World ◽  
The City ◽  
Economic Globalisation

In the context of economic globalisation and the new international order taking shape after the collapse of the Soviet Union, Istanbul is assuming a new and strategic prominence in the world. What kind of city is Istanbul likely to become in its next phase of existence? What can we say of the urban culture and of the sense of urbanity that are now developing there? There are those who maintain that the new Istanbul is again becoming a cosmopolitan city, a cultural mosaic. What strike us most forcefully are the forces that are working to inhibit and undermine any such ideal. First, we consider the contemporary transformation in urban form, and then we shall go on to explore the changing cultural identity of the city.

Cold Chicago: Uncivil Modernity, Urban Form, and Performance in the Upstart City

2009 ◽  
Vol 53 (3) ◽  
pp. 10-36
Author(s):  
Loren Kruger
Keyword(s):  
19Th Century ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Urban Form ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Built Environments ◽  
Paris Commune ◽  
Urban Theory ◽  
Political Conflicts ◽  
And Performance

Since the Haymarket massacre of 1886, Chicagoans have buried and resurrected the city's experiences in performances, politics, and built environments. From Sullivan to Gehry to Chris Ware, from socialist militancy to immigrants' rights, from 19th-century commemorations of the Paris Commune to 21st-century stagings of architectural and political conflicts, Chicago has generated drama in urban theory and practice as well as in theatre.

scholarly journals Spatial integration processes of mass housing estates. The case of Madrid.

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sergio García-Pérez ◽  
Borja Ruiz-Apilánez Corrochano
Keyword(s):  
Urban Form ◽  
Urban Areas ◽  
Initial Conditions ◽  
Space Syntax ◽  
Urban Structure ◽  
Spatial Integration ◽  
Economic Dimension ◽  
Mass Housing ◽  
Improvement Strategies ◽  
Housing Estates

Deprived urban areas regeneration is one of the most important challenges of our cities, which interest is recognised by International Urban Guidelines (ONU), as well as Leipzig Charter and Toledo Declaration (European Union). At this respect, systematic analysis of built city obsolescence is crucial to propose improvement strategies. In particular, mass housing estates, characteristic urban form from modern urbanism, have been detected by several studies as one of the most vulnerable urban forms. Moreover, several studies had determined the systemic nature of problems that this urban form has develop, where physical, social, and economic dimension are strongly related. The low level of spatial integration of the housing estate in the city urban structure could be one of the problems and, in part, responsible of that urban obsolescence. In addition, fifty years after its construction, the continued growth of cities sometimes has modified initial conditions and consequently study the integration evolution of mass housing estates is needed. At this sense, it has been shown that Space Syntax methodology could be a useful tool. The aim of this study is, on the one hand, study criteria to apply Space Syntax methodology to the integration evolution study, and on the other hand, know the integration processes of mass housing estates to propose improvement strategies. Methodology includes, data collection and definition of analysis scenarios adapted to Spanish dataset, Space Syntax methodology in a evolutive approach in two stages: 1970s and 2010s, and interpretation of evolution results. The methodology is tested for Madrid mass housing estates.

scholarly journals Compactness is Not Enough: Development and Trends of a Sustainable Urban Concept

2021 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 61-69
Author(s):  
Diana Poškienė ◽  
Dalia Dijokienė
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Urban Planning ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Urban Form ◽  
Planning Process ◽  
Compact City ◽  
Urban Forms ◽  
Urban Narrative

Abstract The changing concept of sustainable development is changing the practice of designing sustainable urban forms. The article presents a variety of concepts of a sustainable urban form and their ambiguous assessment – the model of a compact city, if applied in all cases, can cost the quality of one’s environment and the quality of life. New bottom-up trends are emerging in theory and in practice of the 21st century, which focus on the urban planning process which is more inclusive in terms of society. The article discusses examples of the creation of a sustainable urban narrative for the development of a relationship with the community.

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