Dich Vong

This week our group was assigned the area in Ha Noi referred to as Dich Vong. It was an interesting space. On our way there we actually found places that allowed actual four door cars to park. So coming here I thought that this area would be catered to higher class, but as we got closer, the area didn't look much different then "traditional" Ha Noi until we got to the apartment complexes. The area had a look that catered to the lower or middle class. There was actually graffiti and street art on one of the buildings which is really reminiscent of areas in the United States such as the projects. One of my teammates said that these buildings were actually made for displaced people, which I never got to find out where they were from. Within the actual apartment complex area it seemed like a ghost town. Not many people or cars or traffic or businesses. We had to go out on the main street to find everything. Things seemed a little further apart and there was no street market to buy fresh goods. This area seems as though to be a place that is a consequence of development and is evidence of transition...