L’extension des limites administratives de Hanoi : un exercice de recomposition territoriale en tension
The administrative territory of Hanoi, the capital city of Vietnam, was redrawn in 2008 with the annexing of the neighbouring province of Ha Tay. The territorial restructuring of this Southeast Asian capital city–with an enviable economic dynamism– results of a strong political gesture. Yet it also...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | German |
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Unité Mixte de Recherche 8504 Géographie-cités
2011-10-01
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| Series: | Cybergeo |
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| Online Access: | https://journals.openedition.org/cybergeo/24179 |
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| Summary: | The administrative territory of Hanoi, the capital city of Vietnam, was redrawn in 2008 with the annexing of the neighbouring province of Ha Tay. The territorial restructuring of this Southeast Asian capital city–with an enviable economic dynamism– results of a strong political gesture. Yet it also hides an entanglement of land-related political and economic interests and conflicts. Indeed, since the economic opening of Vietnam in the mid-1980s, land played a crucial role in the creation of new private wealth across certain social strata. This article explores the role of territorial policies aimed at attracting private investments and of strategies elaborated by public and private urban development actors to access developable lands and assess their impact on the decision to extend Hanoi’s administrative perimeter. We show how new land strategies and territorial governance practices motivated the central power to bring Ha Tay back into the fold of its authority. We also emphasize on the way how pressures put on land at the edge of Hanoi compromised the harmonious development of the national capital and led to its extension. |
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| ISSN: | 1278-3366 |