Viet Nam News HCM City — Việt Nam is promoting the development of smart cities and this requires participation by all ministries, localities and enterprises and international experience, a conference heard in HCM City on Thursday. Speaking at the "Smart City - Sustainable City", Trần Quốc Thái, deputy general director of the Ministry of Construction’s urban development department, said: "The Ministry of Construction is proposing smart urban development by 2025 with a vision to 2030 and this is an important project.” Larry Ng, the director of the Architecture and Urban Design Excellence at the Singaporean National Development Ministry’s Urban Redevelopment Authority, shared lessons from the island’s efforts to become a smart city. “Since 1971 we have been making master plans and detailed plans for different areas of Singapore, and all are reconsidered every 10 years. “We have invited United Nations experts to come and … [Read more...] about Việt Nam pushes for development of smart urban areas
Sustainable residential development in urban areas
Hanoi looks to develop model of “garden city” in urban area
The Hanoitimes - Hanoi’s Department of Planning and Architecture publicized the detailed planning of a functional residential area expected to become a “garden city” in south of the Capital city. Many experts expected to bring residential medium density, close to nature and alleviate the ills of modern city. In the planning with a scale of 1:500, the residential area covers more than 75 hectares in Me Tri, Trung Van and Phu Do wards of Nam Tu Liem district, in the south of Thang Long Avenue. It is designed to consist of housing, lakes, greenery, and schools and accommodate 10,000 people. The department said while planning, relevant agencies of Hanoi tried to ensure appropriate land use and the residential area’s connectivity and harmony with surrounding projects, thereby meeting the general development demand in the south of Hanoi. The functional resident area is formed in line with the Prime Minister’s direction in January 2015 regarding the … [Read more...] about Hanoi looks to develop model of “garden city” in urban area
Hanoi to allocate about 54,000 billion for infrastructure development of urban drainage
The Hanoitimes - On November 29 afternoon, at the meeting of Hanoi People`s Committee, representatives of the Department of Construction (MoC) said that in the period of 2016 -2020 plan, Hanoi is expected to allocate about 54.000 billion for infrastructure development of urban drainage and waste water treatment. Chairman of Hanoi People's Committee Nguyen Duc Chung delivered speech at the meeting The meeting aimed to help researchers, managers and experts share experience in water environment management. Main topics discussed during the conference were water management and water treatment technology. Participants exchanged views on coastal and marine water environment, urban flooding and its health consequences and groundwater pollution control. They also discussed climate change and water environment management, water supply and treatment, emerging contaminants and environmental technology and appropriate technology for water and sanitation. Water treatment technology in … [Read more...] about Hanoi to allocate about 54,000 billion for infrastructure development of urban drainage
Transport infrastructure should precede residential development
Instead of dealing with traffic jams every day Ho Chi Minh City should broaden roads, build more bridges and develop more bus routes while planning new urban areas to avoid traffic congestion in the future, said experts at a seminar in the city on Wednesday. Former director of the Transport Department Tran Quang Phuong said that traffic jam solutions comprise not only technical measures such as building bridges and roads and investing in buses but also synchronous urban planning and management. According to the Department of Transport’s director Bui Xuan Cuong, HCMC transport system has significantly developed for the last 40 years. Many roads had been broadened such as Nguyen Tat Thanh, Interprovincial Road 25 in Nha Be district and Road 10 in Binh Chanh district since the time of subsidized economy. In following years, the city continued building many large roads such as North South, East West and the road along Nhieu Loc-Thi Nghe canal. Despite these efforts, traffic … [Read more...] about Transport infrastructure should precede residential development
Economic development must be in line with environmental protection
(VOVworld) - With Vietnam's robust economic development, environmental pollution is increasing. Natural resources which are not well managed and used properly pose considerable risks for the effort to protect the environment. Balancing economic growth and environmental protection is the crucial challenge of sustainable development. According to the World Bank's environmental research, Ho Chi Minh city and Hanoi are among Vietnam's 10 most polluted provinces and cities. Environmental pollution is considered the biggest challenge to industrialization, modernization and urbanization in Vietnam. Hoang Duong Tung, deputy head of the General Environment Department under the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment talked to us about the impact of economic development on the environment: "In recent years, we have maintained an economic growth rate of more than 7 percent per year. A number of economic and industrial zones have been set up and developed, but enterprises have not paid … [Read more...] about Economic development must be in line with environmental protection