Social Groups of the Upper and Lower Classes of Hanoi

Introduction:
In the essay the discussion will be based on the social groups of the upper class and the lower class in the city of Hanoi in Vietnam and how the social groups have different meanings and values to the urban places.in the last thirty years Hanoi has developed from one of the poorest county in Asia and is now thriving amongst the richest countries and the population has grown dramatically ‘overnight expansion of the city’s population from approximately 3.5 to 6.23 million inhabitants’ (Turner and Schoenberger 2012). The developement and upscale has left many major impacts on the country and its society especially the poor. we see that many of the poor have lost part of their livelihoods and have suffered through the changes that have come and that the wealthier have gained from there losses.my resources have come from to published research papers along with the reading assigned to this module.in my essay I will discuss my literature, methodology followed by main part of the research paper which will be the discussion section and finally my conclusion. In the discussion section with will be based on my findings along with my results. I based this section in two parts, the first part is about the development of the super-markets and the declining of the traditional markets and my second part establish the development of enclosed housing estates and communities and the decline in the farming section through to the land being used to builds these private communities. In my discussion I will emphasis the value of land use for each social class.
Literature:
I will be using secondary sources. My research will come from two research papers .the main paper that I used was ‘Urban development trends in Hanoi & impact on ways...

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... by the agglomerating tendencies inherent in modern industry and the segregating tendencies inherent in modern industry and the segregation tendencies inherent in modernizing societies’ (Knox and Marston 2013)
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References:
Knox,P and Marston,S.(2013) Human Geography places and regions in a global context.USA:Pearson Education,Inc.
Geertman,S (2010) ‘Urban development trends in Hanoi & impact on ways of life, public health and happiness. Liveability from a Health Perspective’ 1(1) pp 1-10
TURNER S. AND SCHOENBERGER L. (2012) Street vendor livelihoods and everyday politics in Hanoi, Vietnam: The seeds of a diverse economy? Urban Studies 49(5), 1027-1044.
Dines, N. and Cattell, V. with Gesler, W., and Curtis, S. 2006. Public Spaces, social relations and well-being in East London. Joseph Rowntree Foundation, University of London. Policy Press, Bristol.