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17 maj 2021 · But by the early 1980s, the center of Vinh had been completely rebuilt as a series of social housing blocks in parkland, designed by East German architects working on site. This is the story told by the American anthropologist Christina Schwenkel in her book Building Socialism: The Afterlife of East German Architecture in Urban Vietnam.
This work examines shifts in the meaning and use of green spaces in socialist housing blocks in Vinh City, Vietnam, a ‘model’ socialist city rebuilt by East Germany (GDR) after its destruction by US aerial bombing.
A decade of relentless air strikes by the United States during the Vietnam War between 1964 and 1973 devastated the industrial city of Vinh in the north-central province of Nghệ An, the cradle of the revolution and the homeland of Hồ Chí Minh, North Vietnam’s first postcolonial president.
The town contains showpieces of socialist housing, which became symbols of decay after the introduction of the market economy in Vietnam. This dramatic story has shaped Christina Schwenkel’s book on Vinh, Building Socialism: The Afterlife of East German Architecture in Urban Vietnam.
31 maj 2021 · But by the early 1980s, the center of Vinh had been completely rebuilt as a series of social housing blocks in parkland, designed by East German architects working on site. This is the story told by the American anthropologist Christina Schwenkel in her book Building Socialism: The Afterlife of East German Architecture in Urban Vietnam.
This work examines shifts in the meaning and use of green spaces in socialist housing blocks in Vinh City, Vietnam, a ‘model’ socialist city rebuilt by East Germany (GDR) after its destruction by US aerial bombing.
Protracted United States bombing of Vietnam obliterated the small industrial city of Vinh. Building Socialism examines the utopian fantasies of an international group of Vietnamese and East German planners who sought to transform Vinh’s urban ruins into a model socialist city.
