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.
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Höhe: 235 mm
Breite: 153 mm
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978-0-86840-443-1 (9780868404431)
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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.
