Goethe Institute introduces City photobook

October 06, 2016 - 09:00

The Goethe Institute in HCM City will host an introduction to the third edition of the photobook TP. Hồ Chí Minh: MEGA City (HCM City: Mega City) by Michael Waibel on October 9.

Viet Nam News

HCM City –  The Goethe Institute in HCM City will host an introduction to the third edition of the photobook TP. Hồ Chí 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 Đỗ Phú Hưng.

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. Hồ Chí Minh: MEGA City with Henning Hilbert of the Vietnamese-German University. Waibel’s previous publications include the photobooks Hà Nội: CAPITAL City and Đà Nẵng: COASTAL City.

Hưng 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 Nguyên Café, 19B Phạm Ngọc Thạch Street, District 3. Entrance is free. – VNS

 

 

 

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