Marie Gibert-Flutre

Université Paris Cité | Paris 5 · East Asian Studies

The rise of the notion of ‘inclusion’ in urban planning, seen in phrases like inclusive city , calls for a critical analysis of its evolving meaning and its spatial, social and political implications. Paradoxically, the meaning of urban inclusion has narrowed such that it now primarily refers to accessibility for people with disabilities. At the in...

This paper examines how Chinese transnational investments, as (re)framed in the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), contribute to changes in urbanisation processes in Southeast Asia. On the ground, the BRI becomes contextualised and intersects with local and national development trajectories. The growing presence of Chinese actors in the region intensi...

Il y a quelque 25 ans, Jean-François Sabouret, éminent spécialiste du Japon, publiait la première des chroniques d’Asie-Monde. Ce projet multiforme tendait à faire connaître à un pu-blic le plus large possible, grâce à des textes courts diffusés sur une plateforme internet libre d’accès, les travaux les plus pointus sur les pays constitutifs de l’A...

Cet ouvrage explore la thématique de l’urbain à partir d’exemples sud-est asiatiques. Il est conçu comme un hommage à Charles Goldblum, Architecte, urbaniste et enseignant-chercheur dont les travaux pionniers ont marqué le champ de la recherche architecturale et urbaine. Une première partie explore son itinéraire scientifique et intellectuel, une s...

The nature of everyday life in metropolitan public spaces is an unprecedented entanglement of activities, emerging from the presence of multiple actors competing for a limited space. Making sense of this complexity is a longstanding challenge in the social sciences: how can such a mesmerizing ‘urban ballet’ be explained in the absence of overall or...

The book critically explores “Global Asia” and the metropolisation process specifically from its alleyways, which are understood as ordinary neighbourhood landscape providing the setting for everyday urban life and place-based identities being shaped by varied everyday practices, collective experiences and forces.

Asian Alleyways: An Urban Vernacular in Times of Globalization critically explores "Global Asia" and the metropolization process, specifically from its alleyways, which are understood as ordinary neighbourhood landscapes providing the setting for everyday urban life and place-based identities being shaped by varied everyday practices, collective ex...

Alleyways are an urban form historically shared by most cities in Asia, yet understudied. Our book critically explores "Global Asia" and the metropolization process, specifically from its alleyways, which are understood as ordinary neighbourhood landscape providing the setting for everyday urban life and place-based identities being shaped by varie...

Alleyways are an urban form historically shared by most cities in Asia, yet understudied. Our book critically explores "Global Asia" and the metropolization process, specifically from its alleyways, which are understood as ordinary neighbourhood landscape providing the setting for everyday urban life and place-based identities being shaped by varie...

Alleyways are an urban form historically shared by most cities in Asia, yet understudied. Our book critically explores "Global Asia" and the metropolization process, specifically from its alleyways, which are understood as ordinary neighbourhood landscape providing the setting for everyday urban life and place-based identities being shaped by varie...

Relying on an approach that intersects both tourism geography and urban studies, this paper aims to understand the production of the Pham Ngu Lao backpacker district in Ho Chi Minh City (Vietnam). It studies the various ways through which professionals, residents and authorities invest in this globalized economy, revealing the profoundly unequal ac...

The ubiquity, peculiar historical growth and specific spatiality of alleyway neighbourhoods make them one of Hồ Chí Minh City’s most defining features. At a time of great pressure to “modernise” the metropolis, efforts are being made to upgrade the alleyways by systematically widening them and regulating the uses to which they are put. Studying thi...

Our article aims to understand the participation of the ‘backpacking neighbourhood’ Phạm Ngũ Lão in the current metropolization process of Hồ Chí Minh City. This neighbourhood is representative of Vietnamese ‘glocalization’. By this term, we mean the abilities of local stakeholders to benefit from the opportunities created by an increasingly global...

As a consequence of the economic opening of Vietnam and Cambodia during the past 20 years, Ho Chi Minh City and Phnom Penh’s urban settings have been changing at a steady pace. This paper offers a renewed approach of the urban elites category that is emerging in these two Southeast Asian cities. Vietnam and Cambodia present two different socio-pol...

Au cœur d’une région urbaine de plus de dix millions d’habitants, Hô Chi Minh Ville s’affirme aujourd’hui comme moteur économique du Viet Nam. Les autorités de la ville-province entendent témoigner de ce statut métropolitain par une reprise en main de la planification, après des décennies de développement urbain spontané. La démarche de cette reche...

As a consequence of the economic openness of Vietnam and Cambodia during the past 20 years, Ho Chi Minh City and Phnom Penh’s urban settings have been changing at a steady pace. The strong economic growth goes along with the enrichment of a part of the urban population, who has been taking the lead of the production of local urban spaces. However,...

This article aims to approach the emergence of Việt Nam through a socio-spatial analysis of leisure practices in Hồ Chí Minh City. Studying leisure practices is tangible way to analyze the way recent national wealth is put to use, its distribution and social meaning. Furthermore, leisure activities offer an original viewpoint on the construction of...