The effects of globalization on cities are complex, multifaceted and geographically diverse.
As a result of national policy changes over the past two decades, the urban impacts of …

In this book, the author marshals evidence to support an arena-specific approach towards
viewing Vietnam's state-society relations. In practice, the Vietnamese party-state's relations …

SYSTEMS of private property rights almost invariably generate greater wealth than do other
ownership forms. Private rights may arise naturally in a system that grants to the first …

Unplanned Development offers a fascinating and fresh view into the realities of development
planning. While to the outsider most development projects present themselves as thoroughly …

Urban development with sustainable urban forms in high-density low-income Asian
countries is a great challenge in the context of acute land scarcity. Though the model of …

Hanoi, capital of Vietnam, has been influenced by Chinese culture, French colonization, war
with the US, socialism from the USSR, and more recently, connection to the global capitalist …

As the references of the world-class city pivot from traditional centers of finance in the West
to include an ascendant Asia, cities dependent on foreign investment must modulate their …

Throughout Vietnam's long history, the central elite and peripheral farming communities
have been legally and culturally divided. This dichotomy was never as complete as the …

This book is about the regime of international watercourses; that is, the principles, norms,
rules, and decision-making procedures regarding the access, use, sharing, and …

Drawing on the informally developed housing sector in Hanoi, this chapter explores what it
means to secure space in a post-reform communist city that has recently integrated with the …