Danielle Labbé
Biographic Data
| ID | 3719405 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Danielle Labbé |
| GIVEN NAMES | Danielle |
| FAMILY NAME | Labbé |
| SIGNATURE | LABBÉ D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Université de Montréal |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8182-114X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 25 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 83 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 24 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Navigating the state-market nexus
Across Asia, large-scale land redevelopments have become a defining feature of market-driven urbanization. In Vietnam, as in other rapidly urbanizing contexts, these projects are not only privately financed and developed but also planned by private consultants. While such private-sector practices are increasingly widespread in Asia, they have received limited scholarly attention, particularly regarding how they shape planning processes and profes…
Making space for difference in Vietnamese public spaces
This paper examines the role of public spaces in fostering positive forms of togetherness in Hanoi, Vietnam, through the case of a multifunctional playground in a lower socio-economic area. Using questionnaires and interviews with users and stakeholders, we analyse how planning and design approaches facilitate interactions between socio-economic groups. The findings reveal that the project's narrative and its participatory design approach created…
Creative Hubs in Hanoi, Vietnam
Introduction There are currently 295 cities designated as members of the UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) Creative Cities Network, an initiative launched in 2004 (Hanoi Department of Culture and Sports). These cities are expected to “work together towards a common objective: placing creativity and cultural industries at the heart of their development plans at the local level and cooperating actively at the…
Institutional straddling
The rise and spread of commercially built residential projects in East and Southeast Asia has attracted growing scholarly attention since the 1990s. This scholarship has notably explored how the private production of new residential developments has altered urban governance across the region. However, few studies have analyzed how private corporate actors’ new roles in city-making processes shape governance logics at the neighborhood scale. This …
Subaltern struggles to access public spaces
This paper explores the relationships between youth who are rural labor migrants and public spaces in Hanoi, Vietnam. A host of constraints limit the access of these young subalterns to the city's public spaces, ranging from a shortage of such spaces in areas where they live, to limited leisure time, constrained mobility, and social stigmatisation. Yet, these young men and women still manage to use and enjoy a number of public spaces in Hanoi for…
Creative hubs in Hanoi, Vietnam
Vietnam’s capital city has recently witnessed the emergence of a new type of cultural space akin to what have been labelled creative hubs in other contexts: that is, locales that foster creation, collaboration, community engagement and business development in the cultural sector. During the 2010s, Hanoi saw a proliferation of small-scale, art-oriented creative hubs, most of them community-led and developed without state funding. In a context mark…
People want good graffiti”
Graffiti has become an omnipresent feature of urban landscapes, with sprawling words and images on public and private surfaces triggering heated debates on the meaning, implications, and legality of these urban inscriptions. Yet, to date, there has been little academic research conducted on graffiti and street art in the Asian context, and none that we could find on the burgeoning scene in Vietnam. In the context of a socialist state, with little…
Urban Transition in Hanoi
Vietnam is in the midst of one of the world's most rapid and intensive rural-to-urban transitions. In Hanoi, heritage preservation has gained significant policy attention over the last decades, but efforts continue to focus on the Old Quarter and Colonial City to the exclusion of collective socialist housing complexes and former village areas, and natural features such as canals and urban lakes. Parks and public spaces are urgently needed to offs…
The language of risk and the risk of language
Like other Caribbean countries, Cuba has adopted policies to relocate populations and prohibit (re)building in coastal zones at risk of climate change effects. Yet residents do not uniformly see such measures as welfare promoting and risk reducing, and may resist relocation, even in places where disaster planning is respected and effective. In such instances, vernacular narratives reveal local understandings of threats, vulnerabilities, and the m…
Handbook of Megacities and Megacity-Regions
Gentrification or …? Injustice in large-scale residential projects in Hanoi
Large-scale residential developments on expropriated lands in periurban Hanoi resemble forms of gentrification seen elsewhere. But is it gentrification? Current debate over the definition of gentrification has focused on whether the term has become too broad to be useful in different institutional and spatio-temporal contexts. While some push for a generalisable definition based in capitalist development, others argue that the term harbours Weste…
City profile
From 2010 to 2015, Canaan was perhaps the urban settlement with the fastest exponential growth in the Western hemisphere. Technically, Canaan is not a city—at least not in the administrative sense of the term. Nor is it simply a slum on the outskirts of Port-au-Prince. Instead, it is a vast, new and almost entirely self-constructed post-disaster settlement. In this city profile, we reveal the causes of this unprecedented urban phenomenon, draw a …
L’immobilier residentiel
À partir du cas de l’aménagement du district 2 et de la Nouvelle Zone Urbaine de Thủ Thiêm cet article explore le contexte au sein duquel prend place l’accroissement du rôle des acteurs privés de la promotion immobilière dans la production métropolitaine de Ho Chi Minh Ville et ses effets sur la fabrique des nouveaux territoires urbains. Alors que le marché immobilier résidentiel de la métropole du sud du Vietnam est l’un des plus dynamiques en A…
Critical reflections on land appropriation and alternative urbanization trajectories in periurban Vietnam
Sidewalk City
For most, the term conjures up images of large, open areas where people congregate, socialize, and exchange thoughts and goods: the ancient Greek agora; modern town community centers; vast, green parks for festivals, games, and meetings. In many of the world's major cities, however, public spaces like these are not woven into the urban fabric. In urban areas, business and social lives have always been conducted along main roads, and when vehicles…
Uneven state formalization and periurban housing production in Hanoi and Mexico City
In the early 2000s, Vietnam and Mexico turned to the private sector to respond to increasing housing demand and tame the growth of uncontrolled periurban settlements. Around Hanoi, such arrangements fostered the construction of vertical developments while large subdivisions of single-family houses spread over former lakebeds in the peripheries of Mexico City. A stronger role of the private sector in the planning and provision of housing is often …
Youth-Driven Tactics of Public Space Appropriation in Hanoi
Starting in the 2000s, there has been a rise in youth-led appropriation of public spaces in Hanoi, Vietnam. Through case studies of skateboarders and traceurs (practitioners of parkour) in two of the city’s formal public spaces, we explore and analyze the tactics deployed by these young urbanites to claim a part of the characteristically overcrowded and socio-politically restrictive public spaces of the Vietnamese capital. These case studies show…
Local Integration Experiments in the New Urban Areas of Hanoi
In the peri-urban zones of many South East Asian cities, capital has flowed into the development of new, middle class urban enclaves. A significant body of scholarship sees these places as embodying some of the worst elements of American-style suburban, gated communities: sterile, disconnected from their surroundings, isolating wealthy people from the surrounding urban life, etc. While it is no doubt true that such a negative view is frequently w…
Consoling Ghosts
SOJOURN is an interdisciplinary journal devoted to the study of social and cultural issues in Southeast Asia. It publishes empirical and theoretical research articles with a view to promoting and disseminating scholarship in and on the region. Areas of special concern include ethnicity, religion, tourism, urbanization, migration, popular culture, social and cultural change, and development. Fields most often represented in the journal are anthrop…
Land Politics and Livelihoods on the Margins of Hanoi, 1920-2010
Introduction 1 The Early Urban Transition (1920-40) 2 Uneven Socialist Revolutions (1940-65) 3 Eating by Points and Coupons Is Not Enough (1965-80) 4 The New Urban Territorial Order (1980-2010) 5 Land for Fresh Ghosts, Land for Dry Ghosts Conclusion Notes References Statutes Cited Index
Periurban Land Redevelopment in Vietnam under Market Socialism
Starting in the 1990s, the Vietnamese state sought to expand and modernise the country’s urban system after four decades of anti-urban policies. This paper examines the reworking of the socialist land regime that followed from this shift. It begins by explaining how new legislation and institutions combined market and socialist principles to lure domestic enterprises into realising the state’s new urban ambitions. It then shows how this hybrid re…
Land Politics and Livelihoods on the Margins of Hanoi, 1920-2010
In the late 1990s, planning authorities in the Vietnamese capital of Hanoi pushed the imaginary line between city and country several kilometres westward, engulfing dozens of rural settlements. As state policies forced rapid urbanization, villagers whose families had farmed the land for generations saw rice fields levelled, irrigation canals filled, and large avenues flanked by residential towers, big-box stores, and office buildings spring up. D…
Understanding the causes of urban fragmentation in Hanoi
Since the late 1990s, a new model of urban development has been promoted in Vietnam. So-called 'new urban areas' are being built on the agricultural lands at the periurban interface of cities across the country. These large-scale redevelopments feature commodity housing and public services, along with commercial and office space. Foreign scholars have criticised the lack of integration between these built environments and existing urban agglomera…
Urban Destruction and Land Disputes in Periurban Hanoi During the Late-Socialist Period
Learning to be Capitalists
Periurban Land Redevelopment in Vietnam under Market Socialism
Starting in the 1990s, the Vietnamese state sought to expand and modernise the country’s urban system after four decades of anti-urban policies. This paper examines the reworking of the socialist land regime that followed from this shift. It begins by explaining how new legislation and institutions combined market and socialist principles to lure domestic enterprises into realising the state’s new urban ambitions. It then shows how this hybrid re…
Understanding the causes of urban fragmentation in Hanoi
Since the late 1990s, a new model of urban development has been promoted in Vietnam. So-called 'new urban areas' are being built on the agricultural lands at the periurban interface of cities across the country. These large-scale redevelopments feature commodity housing and public services, along with commercial and office space. Foreign scholars have criticised the lack of integration between these built environments and existing urban agglomera…
Critical reflections on land appropriation and alternative urbanization trajectories in periurban Vietnam
Sidewalk City
For most, the term conjures up images of large, open areas where people congregate, socialize, and exchange thoughts and goods: the ancient Greek agora; modern town community centers; vast, green parks for festivals, games, and meetings. In many of the world's major cities, however, public spaces like these are not woven into the urban fabric. In urban areas, business and social lives have always been conducted along main roads, and when vehicles…
Urban Destruction and Land Disputes in Periurban Hanoi During the Late-Socialist Period
Youth-Driven Tactics of Public Space Appropriation in Hanoi
Starting in the 2000s, there has been a rise in youth-led appropriation of public spaces in Hanoi, Vietnam. Through case studies of skateboarders and traceurs (practitioners of parkour) in two of the city’s formal public spaces, we explore and analyze the tactics deployed by these young urbanites to claim a part of the characteristically overcrowded and socio-politically restrictive public spaces of the Vietnamese capital. These case studies show…
Local Integration Experiments in the New Urban Areas of Hanoi
In the peri-urban zones of many South East Asian cities, capital has flowed into the development of new, middle class urban enclaves. A significant body of scholarship sees these places as embodying some of the worst elements of American-style suburban, gated communities: sterile, disconnected from their surroundings, isolating wealthy people from the surrounding urban life, etc. While it is no doubt true that such a negative view is frequently w…
Uneven state formalization and periurban housing production in Hanoi and Mexico City
In the early 2000s, Vietnam and Mexico turned to the private sector to respond to increasing housing demand and tame the growth of uncontrolled periurban settlements. Around Hanoi, such arrangements fostered the construction of vertical developments while large subdivisions of single-family houses spread over former lakebeds in the peripheries of Mexico City. A stronger role of the private sector in the planning and provision of housing is often …
Subaltern struggles to access public spaces
This paper explores the relationships between youth who are rural labor migrants and public spaces in Hanoi, Vietnam. A host of constraints limit the access of these young subalterns to the city's public spaces, ranging from a shortage of such spaces in areas where they live, to limited leisure time, constrained mobility, and social stigmatisation. Yet, these young men and women still manage to use and enjoy a number of public spaces in Hanoi for…
People want good graffiti”
Graffiti has become an omnipresent feature of urban landscapes, with sprawling words and images on public and private surfaces triggering heated debates on the meaning, implications, and legality of these urban inscriptions. Yet, to date, there has been little academic research conducted on graffiti and street art in the Asian context, and none that we could find on the burgeoning scene in Vietnam. In the context of a socialist state, with little…
City profile
From 2010 to 2015, Canaan was perhaps the urban settlement with the fastest exponential growth in the Western hemisphere. Technically, Canaan is not a city—at least not in the administrative sense of the term. Nor is it simply a slum on the outskirts of Port-au-Prince. Instead, it is a vast, new and almost entirely self-constructed post-disaster settlement. In this city profile, we reveal the causes of this unprecedented urban phenomenon, draw a …
Land Politics and Livelihoods on the Margins of Hanoi, 1920-2010
Introduction 1 The Early Urban Transition (1920-40) 2 Uneven Socialist Revolutions (1940-65) 3 Eating by Points and Coupons Is Not Enough (1965-80) 4 The New Urban Territorial Order (1980-2010) 5 Land for Fresh Ghosts, Land for Dry Ghosts Conclusion Notes References Statutes Cited Index
Learning to be Capitalists
Understanding the causes of urban fragmentation in Hanoi
Since the late 1990s, a new model of urban development has been promoted in Vietnam. So-called 'new urban areas' are being built on the agricultural lands at the periurban interface of cities across the country. These large-scale redevelopments feature commodity housing and public services, along with commercial and office space. Foreign scholars have criticised the lack of integration between these built environments and existing urban agglomera…
Urban Destruction and Land Disputes in Periurban Hanoi During the Late-Socialist Period
Land Politics and Livelihoods on the Margins of Hanoi, 1920-2010
In the late 1990s, planning authorities in the Vietnamese capital of Hanoi pushed the imaginary line between city and country several kilometres westward, engulfing dozens of rural settlements. As state policies forced rapid urbanization, villagers whose families had farmed the land for generations saw rice fields levelled, irrigation canals filled, and large avenues flanked by residential towers, big-box stores, and office buildings spring up. D…
Periurban Land Redevelopment in Vietnam under Market Socialism
Starting in the 1990s, the Vietnamese state sought to expand and modernise the country’s urban system after four decades of anti-urban policies. This paper examines the reworking of the socialist land regime that followed from this shift. It begins by explaining how new legislation and institutions combined market and socialist principles to lure domestic enterprises into realising the state’s new urban ambitions. It then shows how this hybrid re…
Local Integration Experiments in the New Urban Areas of Hanoi
In the peri-urban zones of many South East Asian cities, capital has flowed into the development of new, middle class urban enclaves. A significant body of scholarship sees these places as embodying some of the worst elements of American-style suburban, gated communities: sterile, disconnected from their surroundings, isolating wealthy people from the surrounding urban life, etc. While it is no doubt true that such a negative view is frequently w…
Consoling Ghosts
SOJOURN is an interdisciplinary journal devoted to the study of social and cultural issues in Southeast Asia. It publishes empirical and theoretical research articles with a view to promoting and disseminating scholarship in and on the region. Areas of special concern include ethnicity, religion, tourism, urbanization, migration, popular culture, social and cultural change, and development. Fields most often represented in the journal are anthrop…
Land Politics and Livelihoods on the Margins of Hanoi, 1920-2010
Introduction 1 The Early Urban Transition (1920-40) 2 Uneven Socialist Revolutions (1940-65) 3 Eating by Points and Coupons Is Not Enough (1965-80) 4 The New Urban Territorial Order (1980-2010) 5 Land for Fresh Ghosts, Land for Dry Ghosts Conclusion Notes References Statutes Cited Index
Critical reflections on land appropriation and alternative urbanization trajectories in periurban Vietnam
Sidewalk City
For most, the term conjures up images of large, open areas where people congregate, socialize, and exchange thoughts and goods: the ancient Greek agora; modern town community centers; vast, green parks for festivals, games, and meetings. In many of the world's major cities, however, public spaces like these are not woven into the urban fabric. In urban areas, business and social lives have always been conducted along main roads, and when vehicles…
Uneven state formalization and periurban housing production in Hanoi and Mexico City
In the early 2000s, Vietnam and Mexico turned to the private sector to respond to increasing housing demand and tame the growth of uncontrolled periurban settlements. Around Hanoi, such arrangements fostered the construction of vertical developments while large subdivisions of single-family houses spread over former lakebeds in the peripheries of Mexico City. A stronger role of the private sector in the planning and provision of housing is often …
Youth-Driven Tactics of Public Space Appropriation in Hanoi
Starting in the 2000s, there has been a rise in youth-led appropriation of public spaces in Hanoi, Vietnam. Through case studies of skateboarders and traceurs (practitioners of parkour) in two of the city’s formal public spaces, we explore and analyze the tactics deployed by these young urbanites to claim a part of the characteristically overcrowded and socio-politically restrictive public spaces of the Vietnamese capital. These case studies show…
The language of risk and the risk of language
Like other Caribbean countries, Cuba has adopted policies to relocate populations and prohibit (re)building in coastal zones at risk of climate change effects. Yet residents do not uniformly see such measures as welfare promoting and risk reducing, and may resist relocation, even in places where disaster planning is respected and effective. In such instances, vernacular narratives reveal local understandings of threats, vulnerabilities, and the m…
Handbook of Megacities and Megacity-Regions
Gentrification or …? Injustice in large-scale residential projects in Hanoi
Large-scale residential developments on expropriated lands in periurban Hanoi resemble forms of gentrification seen elsewhere. But is it gentrification? Current debate over the definition of gentrification has focused on whether the term has become too broad to be useful in different institutional and spatio-temporal contexts. While some push for a generalisable definition based in capitalist development, others argue that the term harbours Weste…
City profile
From 2010 to 2015, Canaan was perhaps the urban settlement with the fastest exponential growth in the Western hemisphere. Technically, Canaan is not a city—at least not in the administrative sense of the term. Nor is it simply a slum on the outskirts of Port-au-Prince. Instead, it is a vast, new and almost entirely self-constructed post-disaster settlement. In this city profile, we reveal the causes of this unprecedented urban phenomenon, draw a …
L’immobilier residentiel
À partir du cas de l’aménagement du district 2 et de la Nouvelle Zone Urbaine de Thủ Thiêm cet article explore le contexte au sein duquel prend place l’accroissement du rôle des acteurs privés de la promotion immobilière dans la production métropolitaine de Ho Chi Minh Ville et ses effets sur la fabrique des nouveaux territoires urbains. Alors que le marché immobilier résidentiel de la métropole du sud du Vietnam est l’un des plus dynamiques en A…
Urban Transition in Hanoi
Vietnam is in the midst of one of the world's most rapid and intensive rural-to-urban transitions. In Hanoi, heritage preservation has gained significant policy attention over the last decades, but efforts continue to focus on the Old Quarter and Colonial City to the exclusion of collective socialist housing complexes and former village areas, and natural features such as canals and urban lakes. Parks and public spaces are urgently needed to offs…
Creative Hubs in Hanoi, Vietnam
Introduction There are currently 295 cities designated as members of the UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) Creative Cities Network, an initiative launched in 2004 (Hanoi Department of Culture and Sports). These cities are expected to “work together towards a common objective: placing creativity and cultural industries at the heart of their development plans at the local level and cooperating actively at the…
Institutional straddling
The rise and spread of commercially built residential projects in East and Southeast Asia has attracted growing scholarly attention since the 1990s. This scholarship has notably explored how the private production of new residential developments has altered urban governance across the region. However, few studies have analyzed how private corporate actors’ new roles in city-making processes shape governance logics at the neighborhood scale. This …
Subaltern struggles to access public spaces
This paper explores the relationships between youth who are rural labor migrants and public spaces in Hanoi, Vietnam. A host of constraints limit the access of these young subalterns to the city's public spaces, ranging from a shortage of such spaces in areas where they live, to limited leisure time, constrained mobility, and social stigmatisation. Yet, these young men and women still manage to use and enjoy a number of public spaces in Hanoi for…
Creative hubs in Hanoi, Vietnam
Vietnam’s capital city has recently witnessed the emergence of a new type of cultural space akin to what have been labelled creative hubs in other contexts: that is, locales that foster creation, collaboration, community engagement and business development in the cultural sector. During the 2010s, Hanoi saw a proliferation of small-scale, art-oriented creative hubs, most of them community-led and developed without state funding. In a context mark…
People want good graffiti”
Graffiti has become an omnipresent feature of urban landscapes, with sprawling words and images on public and private surfaces triggering heated debates on the meaning, implications, and legality of these urban inscriptions. Yet, to date, there has been little academic research conducted on graffiti and street art in the Asian context, and none that we could find on the burgeoning scene in Vietnam. In the context of a socialist state, with little…
Making space for difference in Vietnamese public spaces
This paper examines the role of public spaces in fostering positive forms of togetherness in Hanoi, Vietnam, through the case of a multifunctional playground in a lower socio-economic area. Using questionnaires and interviews with users and stakeholders, we analyse how planning and design approaches facilitate interactions between socio-economic groups. The findings reveal that the project's narrative and its participatory design approach created…
Navigating the state-market nexus
Across Asia, large-scale land redevelopments have become a defining feature of market-driven urbanization. In Vietnam, as in other rapidly urbanizing contexts, these projects are not only privately financed and developed but also planned by private consultants. While such private-sector practices are increasingly widespread in Asia, they have received limited scholarly attention, particularly regarding how they shape planning processes and profes…
Political science (16 works) · Geography (15 works) · Vietnamese History and Culture Studies (15 works) · Law (11 works) · Politics (11 works) · Sociology (9 works) · Economics (8 works) · Economic growth (7 works) · Law (7 works) · Urban Planning and Governance (7 works)