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Workshop on Tourist Utopias

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In April 2013 the Department of Communication hosted a workshop on the topic of “Tourist Utopias.” The workshop was organized by Tim Simpson and participants included Keller Easterling (Yale School of Architecture), Pal Nyiri (Anthropology, VU Univ., Amsterdam), Panivong Norindr (Comparative Literature, USC), Angela Ndalianis (Media Studies, Univ. of Melbourne), Veronica Della Dora

Cities in a ‘Global Polity’: The Making of Public Space Policy in Hanoi

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Prof. Ola Soderstrom, Professor of Social and Cultural Geography at the Institute of Geography, University of Neuchatel, Switzerland, presented his recent research on public space policy in Hanoi, Vietnam. [...] Abstract: Hanoi is an aspiring 'world city' in a country with the third growth in GPD in Asia and the most important urbanization