F03 Healthy cities and urban development promoting public health – one inventory and comparison study as well as measures and strategies for the metropolis Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City in Vietnam
Betreuung
Prof. Dr. Nguyen Xuan Thinh
Florian Spieß, MSc
Mathias Schaefer, MSc
Laufzeit
10.2017 – 07.2018
Beschreibung
Livable and healthy cities are a core aim of sustainable spatial development. Despite this fact, planning for health-promoting urban regions has not been addressed in the Vietnamese spatial planning yet. As Vietnam is strongly exposed to climate, there is urgent need of effective measures for shaping cities for health. Urban planning promoting public health is an entirely new and urgent focus in the sustainable urban development in Vietnam. In this context, the project aims to work on an inventory and a comparison study about urban health as well as strategies for the healthy development in the metropolis Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City. During the research stay of the Department RIM in Vietnam in March 2017, agreements about support from and collaboration with the Vietnam Institute for Urban and Rural Planning (VIUP), the Vietnam Institute of Meteorology, Hydrology and Climate Change (IMHEN), the Faculty of the Environmental Sciences and the Research Center for Environmental Monitoring and Modelling (CEMM) of the Hanoi University of Sciences as well as the Faculty of Geography of the University of Social Sciences and Humanities in Ho Chi Minh City, have been made for this project.
The metropolises Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City suffer from extreme environmental pollution including high air pollution, extreme heat, high noise nuisance, high waste accumulation, overuse of surface water and groundwater, soil and water contamination, high discharge of untreated waste water into the environment – all these issues are accompanied and exacerbated by environmental accidents and flooding. International practices of health-promoting urban planning provide strategies and measures which can be transferred to Vietnam in an innovative way. This project aims to contribute to this process and provide new impulses for health-promoting urban planning in Vietnam. The project focuses on the following question: How can urban development planning significantly influence development of healthy metropolises? The Department of Spatial Information Management and Modelling has arranged cooperation with Vietnamese Partners during a research trip to Vietnam in March 2017: Vietnam Institute for Urban and Rural Planning (VIUP), Vietnam Institute of Meteorology, Hydrology and climate Change, Faculty of Environmental Sciences and the Research Center for Environmental Monitoring and Modelling (CEMM) of the Hanoi University of Sciences, and Faculty of Geography of the University of Social Sciences and Humanities in Ho Chi Minh City. VIUP is the Vietnamese counterpart to the German Federal Office for Building and Regional Planning (BBR). Participating students of School of Spatial Planning will develop general possibilities and concrete recommendations for a healthy urban development. The study trip and field research in Vietnam from 12.03.2018 until 23.03.2018 is an integral part of this project.