Contemporary Hà Nội contains diverse types of housing and neighborhoods, including the Old Quarter [Phố Cổ], the French Quarter, collective living quarters, contemporary urbanized villages, and new urban quarters, which together reflect over one thousand years of urban development. Socialist Housing in Hanoi, which is also published in Vietnamese as Nhà ở xã hội chủ nghĩa ở Hà Nội by the same publishing house, vividly examines the history of collective living quarters [khu tập thể, or KTT]. KTTs are groupings of a dozen four- or five-story buildings that originally looked uniform in various aspects and often included schools, daycare centers, healthcare clinics, spaces for recreation, and shops. Drawing on ethnographic research, the book offers readers two essays: the first is a comprehensive history by Hans Schenk and the second an in-depth case study by Trinh Duy Luan of the physical and social dimensions of the...

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