Presentation Slides at 6th APRU Conference, Oregon- USA

Re-planning structure and Socializing conservation of “Hanoi Ancient Quarter” towards Sustainable Urban Development in Vietnam.

(Full paper- Presented in: Annual Association of Pacific Rim Universities Conference, 2005. University of Oregon, USA)

Abstract

Hanoi Ancient Quarter called 36 Old Streets Quarter is just recognized as one of National Heritages including hundreds of valued relics from year 1010 to now. Urban development is being changed town structure and caused social problems loosing its initiated identity. To answer questions “What, Why and How?” so the aim of this paper is to discover historical and urban development process of the Ancient Quarter in terms of socio-economic characteristics, town conceptualizations in the past, as well as to review and evaluate social and community’s efforts in last ten years by applying “dots analytic system” (DAS) which based on sustainable urban design models. In order to re-plan structure and socialize preservation works, some key solutions of sustainable urban development and design are proposed in order to positively conserve and develop original image “Ancient Quarter” of Hanoi City towards sustainable urban development in the future

Key words: sustainable urban development and design, urban planning, conservation, socialization of conservation, DAS’s system.