HN moves towards green metropolis

The plan will also serve the capital’s long-term strategy to turn itself into an international metropolis of tourism and business—first in the region, and then in the world.

The Director of the Rural and Urban Planning and Architect Institute Ngô Trung Hải explained that the green system includes municipal rivers and lakes, the natural reserves of Ba Vì, Hương Tích and Sóc Sơn mountains, productive agricultural areas and traditional craft villages, and cultural relics sites.

The scheme calls for establishing a green corridor along the Đáy, Tích and Cà Lồ rivers in an effort to control the rampant urbanization of nuclear and satellite cities.

The green corridor will have a north south road and three ecological townships.

The scheme will be regularly updated with Hà Nội’s latest statistics such as a recent calculation of Hà Nội’s population that shows a 20 percent reduction over the previous forecast for 2050.

More specifically, the capital plans to keep its population at or below 9.1 million by 2030, which will fluctuate between 10.5 and 10.7 million by 2050.

The population density in the four old inner precincts will be reduced from current 33,300 people/ sq. k. to 23,000 by 2050.

Municipal People’s Committee Chairman Nguyễn Thế Thảo asked planning designers to consider architectural options that can attract citizens from the centre of Hà Nội to satellite cities.

Planning designers consist of the consultant PPJ, a joint venture of Perkino Eastman from the US , Posco E & C and Jina of the Republic of Korea , the Rural and Urban Planning and Architecture Institute under the Ministry of Construction and the Hà Nội Urban Planning Institute./.