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Short term design interventions:
Longer term design actions:
City-scale planning of public spaces:
Monitoring system (by local authorities):
Management of public spaces:
Parking: Establishing a flexible system of parking in different contexts.
- Large parks (12 hectares and above) should be equipped with dedicated, guarded parking facilities, either on-site, or in the immediate vicinity of the park.
- Smaller parks (less than 12 hectares), public gardens, and lakeshores should only provide users with access to off-site parking spaces.
- Parking fees for bicycles should be waived in all dedicated parking spaces (on- and off-site) while fees should be maintained for motorbikes. In the medium- to long-term, plans should be made to better connect public spaces to the city’s public transit network and, potentially, to a bike lane network.
Research and development agenda:
LINKS & DOCS
COMPLETE RESEARCH REPORTYouth-friendly public spaces in Hanoi
Complete report for this collaborative research project between the Institut national de la recherche scientifique (INRS, Canada), the Institute of Sociology of the Vietnamese Academy of Social Sciences (IoS-VASS, Vietnam), and HealthBridge (Vietnam and Canada)
Principal Investigator and co-investigators: Julie-Anne Boudreau, Laurence Charton, Stephanie Geertman, Danielle Labbé, Pham Thi Thanh Hien, Dang Nguyen Anh
Research assistance: Doan Phuong Thuy, Mélissa Côté-Douyon, Olivier Jacques, Alice Miquet, Étienne Pelletier, Trinh Thai Quang, Tran Thi Huong Giang, Sylvain Rodrigue, Nguyen Thi Ngoc Ha, Nguyen Thi Xuan, Nguyen Vu Cuong, Nghiem Thi Thuy, Pham Ngoc Tan.
May 2015
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POLICY BRIEF
PUBLIC SPACE AND HANOIAN YOUTH:
Access to public parks and the use and preferences of young park users.
Supervised Research Project by Étienne Pelletier
Master’s in Urban Planning Université de Montréal,
May – 2015CONFORMITY AND RESISTANCE:
Being a girl in Hanoi’s public spaces (in french).
Article in L’Asie en 1000 mots, by Mélissa Côté-Douyon.
April – 2015THE NETWORK PUBLIC SPACES:
Trung Hoa Nhan Chinh Area, Analysis and Intervention.
Urban Design project by Giang Tran , Huyen Chu & Linh Pham
August – 2014PORTRAIT OF 34T
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Observation study-film, by Alice Niangu
2014
CAPSTONE PROJECT
The case of youths in Lenin Square (in french).
Final report, undergrad work by Léa Rochette Brunelle
Baccalaureate in Urbanism Université de Montréal
Winter – 2015VIUP - QUY HOẠCH XÂY DỰNG số 74:
– How far is the park? Mapping the distribution and accessibility of Hanoi’s public spaces (in Vietnamese).
Article by Pham Thi Thanh Hien, Danielle Labbé and Étienne Pelletier
VIUP no 74, 2015
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– Youth-friendly public spaces in Hanoi (in Vietnamese).
Article by Stephanie Geertman
VIUP no 74, 2015
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– Former village, new streets and stories about public spaces in Trung Hoa Nhan Chinh – Research and recommendations. (in Vietnamese).
Article by Tran Thi Huong Giang.
VIUP no 74, 2015
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