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Viet Nam News
HCM City – The Goethe Institute in HCM City will host an introduction to the third edition of the photobook TP. Ho Chi Minh: MEGA City (HCM City: Mega City) by Michael Waibel on October 9.
The book features 450 photos and descriptions in Vietnamese and English and gives readers an overview of the city from the past to the present.
The event will include speeches on the book and the city’s sustainable urban development by Waibel and Do Phu Hung.
Waibel is a senior researcher and project leader in urbanism at the Department of Geography at the University of Hamburg. In 2014, he co-published TP. Ho Chi Minh: MEGA City with Henning Hilbert of the Vietnamese-German University. Waibel’s previous publications include the photobooks Ha Noi: CAPITAL City and Da Nang: COASTAL City.
Hung is the head of the Department of Urban Planning at the HCM City University of Architecture.
The event will be held in both Vietnamese and English. It will begin at 10 am at the Trung Nguyen Cafe, 19B Pham Ngoc Thach Street, District 3. Entrance is free. – VNS
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