I am doing my research project on the safety of children while on motorbikes. I found this topic interesting because I noticed that most young children do not wear helmets, but that they do tend to where some combination of face-masks, sunglasses, sun-hats, mosquito nets and safety-belts. I have been doing research on this […]
Moving poor Vietnamese to make a place for rich Vietnamese
This week our class took a bus to district 7 where we looked into aspects of urbanization, development and upward mobility we hadn’t thought about before. Our first stop was at an upscale mall that would seem shockingly huge and expensive even in the US. A map of where this mall is the first […]
Community spaces, community dance lessons at 6am
This morning I arrived at Reunification Park, formally known as, and sill commonly referred to as, Lenin Park, at exactly 6:25am. I paid the entrance fee of 4,000VND, equivalent to roughly 20cents USD and walked around the lake taking pictures of as many activities as I could until 7:30am. I was in awe of […]
The brick kilns
This weekend while visiting the Mekong Delta, we had a chance to tour a large warehouse of brick kilns and a huge pottery workshop. After learning about the labor that goes into making these bricks, all of the expenses and how small the profits are, I became very interested in how it is possible for […]
Vendor genders and nap-time at the market.
When thinking about going to some Markets around the city, I became interested in observing patterns of gender among various sections of the market. I assumed the people selling goods would be about half male and half female, but maybe separated some depending on which goods are being sold by that person. I planned […]
Motor bike traffic in Ho Chi Minh City
After reading the articles this week, the issue related to urbanization that I am most interested in learning about in Ho Chi Minh City is traffic, especially the increasing number of motor bikes and how that impacts the daily experience and safety of the people who drive them. According to the reading, the number of […]