1. Urban Planning and Urban land for specific regions in Vietnam By Ngo Minh HUNG Senior Urban Planner- Architect National Institute for Urban and Rural Planning Ministry of Construction, VIETNAM Tokyo- Japan March 17,2004 Sustainable National Land Policy of Asian Countries responding to Long term Impacts

11. For Cuu Long River Delta: + Construction land reserve is quite various but + Often suffers from floods; + Urban should be small, medium scale. + In flooding regions, technical methods must be combined to protect the constructed urban from spate to ensure a low cost investment. For the delta regions of the North and the Northern Center: + Various construction land, + Land foundation is weak (many lakes and ponds) + Most of the land reserve is high quality agricultural land that needs to be protected. For midland and round-hill regions of the North and the Northern Center: + Construction land is very various (good terrain, low cultivation quality) + The selection of urban land should overcome difficulties of flat hills with too small and decentralize dimensions.

12. 5. Direction for Distribution, Organization of Functions & Infrastructure - Industrial parks + Ensuring the development area for industrial parks + Rearranging industrial parks in conformity to planning structure + Organically combining new industrial parks with residential areas - Residential areas and public service centers in urban + In large and medium urban: organizing new urban areas + Old urban needs studying and planning to be rearranged suitably. - Tourism areas and resorts + Tourism region of Hanoi metropolitan + Tourism region of Ho Chi Minh city and the outskirts + Tourism region of Hue - Da Nang - Lao Bao - Quang Ngai + Coastal and mountainous tourism regions

13. 5. Direction for Distribution, Organization of Functions & Infrastructure Preserving urban environment, landscapes and ecological balance + Building a framework for nature preservation, ensuring sustainable development & ecological balance. + In the whole country, be protected 9,300,000 ha of existing forest + To develop new grown forest. By 2010, increasing to 16 million ha. + Zoning and protecting strictly the natural forests, national parks, heritages and natural regions. + In large urban and urban clusters, planning and building green belts and specific green trees. + Studying models, new housing units and several ecological villages to apply for each concrete region and urban. + Applying technical and technological methods and solutions to exploit reasonably natural resources in conformity to the socio-economic development level and ability of Vietnam.

14. Findings + Vietnam always makes friends with all countries in the world. + Socio-Economic developments concentrating on growth economic regions (triangle economic regions in North, Center and South of Vietnam). + Developing comprehensive economic areas, border gate trading areas between neighbor countries such as China, Lao, Cambodia and others through Seaports. + Applying appropriate solutions to harmonize overloaded development in metropolitans such as Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City. + Concentrating on infrastructure development under urbanization and urban development. Industrialization and Modernization in Vietnam show that urban planning for specific regions and socio-economic development has played as an important role for the future. It should be implementing ahead in order to set up national development strategies by identifying major economic regions, land reserve, comprehensive economic areas, infrastructure, environment and so on. In general, we do believe these targets set by the 2005-2010 Socio Economic Strategy of Vietnam will be fulfilled. Conclusion

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