Urban Green Areas – their functions under a changing lifestyle of ...

List of Figure:
Figure 1.1: Implications in rapid growing cities………………………………………. 1
Figure 1.2: Location of Hanoi in Vietnam (Indochina peninsula)…………………… 3
Figure 1.3: Placed outline of Thang Long capital (Hanoi)…………………………….. 5
Figure 1.4: Park area on district level of Hanoi (2005)……………………………….. 10
Figure 1.5: Population density of the Hanoi inner-city (2005)……………………….. 11
Figure 1.6: Arrangement of Hanoi City Administration 2005…………………………. 14
Figure 1.7: The survey process………………………………………………………... 19
Figure 1.8: Sources of data…………………………………………………………….. 20
Figure 1.9: Types of Observation……………………………………………………… 22
Figure 1.10: Forms of surveys………………………………………………………… 25
Figure 2.1: Hierarchy of parks in Vietnam……………………………………………. 39
Figure 2.2: Factors influencing the thermal comfort and their
inter-relationships…………………………………………………………. 48
Figure 2.3: PET ranges for various thermal sensation and stress levels……….…..…. 49
Figure 3.1: GDP growth rate of Vietnam & Hanoi…………………………………….. 52
Figure 3.2: Share of daily multi-media use in Vietnam …………………………..…… 55
Figure 3.3: Concepts of Lifestyle………………………………………………..……… 58
Figure 3.4: Categories of time budget………………………………………….……….. 67
Figure 4.1: Natural comfort during twelve months in Hanoi…………………………… 72
Figure 4.2: Share of number of questionnaires versus size of parks…………………… 74
Figure 4.3: Age structures of the field survey versus of the census (2009)……………. 75
Figure 4.4: Intensity of park usage in the course of the week…………………………. 76
Figure 4.5: The course of a day of park users (Bach Thao park, October 2011)……. 78