Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. List of Illustrations ix
4. Introduction: Luxury and Rubble 1
5. Part I. Luxury
6. 1. Civilizing the Wastelands: A Short History of Urban Development in Phú Mỹ Hưng 27
7. 2. Civilization City 58
8. 3. Exercising Consciousness: Self and Society in a Privatizing Space of Exclusion 86
9. Part II. Rubble
10. 4. Thủ Thiêm Futures Past: A Short History of Seeing without Seeing 117
11. 5. Building a Civilized, Modern, and Sentimental City 154
12. 6. From the Rubble 183
13. Conclusion: Civility and Dispossession 211
14. Acknowledgments 223
15. Notes 229
16. Bibliography 261
17. Index 275