Hanoi
Biography of a City
Seiten
2000
UNSW Press (Verlag)
978-0-86840-443-1 (ISBN)
UNSW Press (Verlag)
978-0-86840-443-1 (ISBN)
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This text traces the history of the fabric of Hanoi from its origins 1000 years ago. It examines how the shape of the city reflects changing political, cultural and economic conditions over a millennium of intermittent warfare and waves of cultural change and migration.
As Vietnam opened up to the West since the late 1980s, awareness of the architectural richness of the national capital, Hanoi, has grown. Its striking combination of Chinese-influenced shop-houses, French boulevards, Soviet housing and recent Western-style commercial developments in unique. Hanoi: Biography of a City is the first book to trace the history of the fabric of the city since its origins a thousand years ago.
As Vietnam opened up to the West since the late 1980s, awareness of the architectural richness of the national capital, Hanoi, has grown. Its striking combination of Chinese-influenced shop-houses, French boulevards, Soviet housing and recent Western-style commercial developments in unique. Hanoi: Biography of a City is the first book to trace the history of the fabric of the city since its origins a thousand years ago.
William S. Logan is Professor of Geography at Deakin University in Melbourne. He has worked as a consultant for UNESCO, AUSAID and the Australian Heritage Commission, and was a member of the Australian government-funded Hanoi Planning and Development Project.
Erscheint lt. Verlag | 31.10.2001 |
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Verlagsort | Sydney |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 153 x 235 mm |
Themenwelt | Reisen ► Reiseberichte ► Asien |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte | |
Technik ► Architektur | |
ISBN-10 | 0-86840-443-8 / 0868404438 |
ISBN-13 | 978-0-86840-443-1 / 9780868404431 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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