{"id":204,"date":"2012-06-26T14:34:50","date_gmt":"2012-06-26T14:34:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ijaps.usm.my\/?page_id=204"},"modified":"2020-04-19T18:18:39","modified_gmt":"2020-04-19T10:18:39","slug":"globalising-city-southeast-asia-utopia-urban-edge-the-case-phu-my-hung-saigon","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/ijaps.usm.my\/?page_id=204","title":{"rendered":"Globalising the City in Southeast Asia: Utopia on the Urban Edge \u2013 The Case of Phu My Hung, Saigon, by Mike Douglass and Liling Huang."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Vol. 3, No. 2 (2007): 1\u201342.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Abstract<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The accelerated urban transition now taking place in Southeast Asia focuses on a\u00a0handful of mega-urban regions that are absorbing hundreds of thousands of\u00a0people into their expanding urban sphere every year. The certainty of the\u00a0continued rapid geographical expansion of urban landscapes into rural\u00a0hinterlands is allowing for a particular global process that magnifies what is also\u00a0happening in other parts of the world: the creation by international land\u00a0developers of gigantic new towns presented as exclusive utopia for an emerging\u00a0urban upper middle class. With vast areas of rural land soon to be absorbed into\u00a0expanding metropolitan regions, these developers have what appears to be a\u00a0clean slate for the construction of private new towns. Among the most ambitious is\u00a0Saigon South covering 3,300 hectares of land and slated to be the home of one\u00a0million people. Located just across the Doi Canal and Ben Luc River from central\u00a0Saigon, this development scheme is totally planned with, no mechanism for\u00a0community planning, no lower classes or slums. Although portrayed as a great\u00a0advance for the people of Ho Chi Minh City (HCMC, Saigon) metropolis, what\u00a0and where its public spaces and civic life are questions without ready answers.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Author&#8217;s bio<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Mike Douglass is the Director of the Globalization Research Center and Professor of Urban and Regional Planning at the University of Hawai\u2019i. His research focuses on East and Southeast Asia and currently includes: livable cities; urbanization and civic space; mega-urban region dynamics; the globalization of households; and rural-urban linkages.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Liling Huang is an Associate Professor in the Graduate Institute of Building and Planning at the National Taiwan University, Taiwan. She teaches courses on theories of urban planning and design, global studies and urban development in Asia. 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