City Rhythms: Urban Mobility Relations in Ho Chi Minh City

Moving beyond a rhythmanalysis approach to banal mobilities and diurnal journey making – commuting, visiting, shopping, leisure this paper explores how place-dependent forms of transport shape the feel flow city. Theorizing city as polyrhythmic reveals multiple traces local/global past/present in socio-historically situatedness urban mobilities. Based on 20 months ethnographic fieldwork Ho Chi Minh City, I reconsider dis/orderliness different movements mega-urban postcolonial Global South. The paper's main arguments are arranged around thick description scene HCMC's everyday traffic flows experienced from curbside one city's busy streets. draw concepts avant guard musical composition rethink de-synchronization disharmony congested roads relations. Firstly, deploy concept aleatory offer an alternative explanation for unpredictable elements metropolitan flow. Secondly, apply phasing, or syncing, sensory experiences explore co-production Thirdly, reflect isorhythmia stochastic processes analyze influences models digitization repetition randomness