Social-Capitalist Housing for Hanoi

High dense residential block with social housing designed to give the social class opportunities to move up the social ladder by stimulating local markets and craft, community building and self-governance over their environments.

KTT 2.0 - Vietnamese Soviet Housing District, Hanoi, Vietnam

The KTT (‘Khu Tap The’; Dormitory Region) district is a housing district based on the Soviet microrayon (microdistrict). In contrast to other former or current communist countries, the microrayons in Hanoi have transformed greatly. This occurred from 1986 when Vietnam entered a free market economy by setting up its Doi-Moi (reformation) policy....

“Assessing the possibility of cooperation between Amsterdam and Hanoi in the Field of Solid Waste Management”. Study case: Feasibility of transferring Dutch technology of Waste-to-Energy from Amsterdam to Hanoi

Hanoi, the capital city of Vietnam, currently faces a price of booming development: pollution from waste. For example, within the last 10 years, the amount of municipal solid waste (MSW) has tripled in the city, from roughly 800,000 tons/year in pre-2007 to 2,400,000 tons/year in 2010. As the result, this situation challenges the home city of 6...

Flexibility: An alternative development strategy in new urban areas in Hanoi

This thesis discusses the importance and use of flexibility in urban planning and design in South East Asian new urban developments. It stretches the importance of a new balance between the stakeholders in order to create more resilient and sustainable urban extensions. In this way it tries to find answers to the question; in what way can...