Much rare material is incorporated in this unique account of urbanization in a developing country that was ravaged by war for twenty years. With due emphasis on the experience of Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon), the authors present an account of what happened to the towns and cities of Vietnam between the establishment of Ho Chi Minh's socialist state in 1954 and the mid 1980s. The story is introduced through a general theoretical and empirical account of urbanization in socialist Third World countries. The book stresses the importance of the turmoil created by warfare in directing urbanization, but it also refers to the more conventially studied determinants of the process such as the institution of a planned economy.As one of the few books highlighting the impact of warfare on urban settlements, The Price of War will interest all those interested in urbanization, development and South-East Asia.This book was first published in 1986.

Price of War: Urbanization in Vietnam 1954-1985

Politics & Social Sciences

Thrift, Nigel

Forbes, Dean

Social Sciences

Unwin Hyman

From Vietnam to Indonesia, Singapore to Thailand, South-East Asia's economies are growing at unprecedented rates. This book penetrates the facade of contemporary city growth, exploring the pre-colonial, colonial, and post-colonial city. It describes the divergence in urban development under capitalist and socialist regimes, and the gradual convergence in the post-reforms era of the 1990s. And it looks at the current problems of the fast growing metropolis, from the exploitation of women in the labor force, to the overstretched infrastructure and urban environmental crisis.

Asian Metropolis: Urbanisation and the Southeast Asian City (Meridian: Australian Geographical Perspectives)

Oxford University Press

The Price of War

Much rare material is incorporated in this unique account of urbanization in a developing country that was ravaged by war for twenty years. With due emphasis on the experience of Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon), the authors present an account of what happened to the towns and cities of Vietnam between the establishment of Ho Chi Minh's socialist state in 1954 and the mid 1980s. The story is introduced through a general theoretical and empirical account of urbanization in socialist Third World countries. The book stresses the importance of the turmoil created by warfare in directing urbanization, but it also refers to the more conventially studied determinants of the process such as the institution of a planned economy. As one of the few books highlighting the impact of warfare on urban settlements, The Price of War will interest all those interested in urbanization, development and South-East Asia. This book was first published in 1986.      

The Price of War: Urbanization in Vietnam, 1954-1985

History

Routledge

The Geography of Underdevelopment

First published in 1984, this title discusses the emergence of both the orthodox and political economy based approaches to underdevelopment in geography , critically assessing their strengths and weaknesses, and showing the relationship between intellectual developments and changing material conditions.  The work is primarily concerned with theories, though it does contain much empirical material drawn from throughout the Third World. The book examines the emergence of theories of development historically and considers the various contemporary theoretical ‘schools’, both Marxist and non-Marxist. It goes on to consider four aspects of development which are of particular interest to geographers, namely the world economy, regional imbalances, the human-nature theme and the analysis of urban space, and concludes by suggesting some directions for future research.

Reference

The Socialist Third World: Urban development and territorial planning

The socialist Third World countries have grown from a handful in the 1950s to over thirty in the 1980s, yet they have received little attention in the development literature. The essays in this volume examine the territorial planning experience of several key socialist countries: Algeria, Cuba, Guyana, Nicaragua, Vietnam, PDR Yemen, Zimbabwe. Territorial considerations are now of great importance in the economic and social planning of the characteristically centrally planned countries under scrutiny. The pressure for industrialization, the equitable distribution of growth and benefits, and national defence produce economic problems that in some cases are staved off by recourse to international borrowing. Contradictory stresses such as these are resolved in different ways by different countries, and these essays describe the various approaches and policies employed in each of the nations examined.

The Socialist Third World: Urban Development and Territorial Planning

Business & Money

Blackwell Pub.

Much rare material is incorporated in this unique account of urbanization in a developing country that was ravaged by war for twenty years. With due emphasis on the experience of Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon), the authors present an account of what happened to the towns and cities of Vietnam between the establishment of Ho Chi Minh's socialist state in 1954 and the mid 1980s. The story is introduced through a general theoretical and empirical account of urbanization in socialist Third World countries. The book stresses the importance of the turmoil created by warfare in directing urbanization, but it also refers to the more conventially studied determinants of the process such as the institution of a planned economy. As one of the few books highlighting the impact of warfare on urban settlements, The Price of War will interest all those interested in urbanization, development and South-East Asia. This book was first published in 1986.

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Price of War: Urbanization in Vietnam 1954-1985

Asian Metropolis: Urbanisation and the Southeast Asian City (Meridian: Australian Geographical Perspectives)

The Price of War: Urbanization in Vietnam, 1954-1985

The Geography of Underdevelopment

The Geography of Underdevelopment

The Socialist Third World: Urban Development and Territorial Planning

The Price of War

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