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

As a consequence finding trade-offs between competing objectives become battle grounds
in many major conflicts of urban development.
In addition, infrastructures such as parks and gardens are often not well maintained, due to
low budgets from the authority, and overlapping responsibilities of many disciplines and
administrative levels quickly results in a log jam in the management of public spaces (DO
2011). Typically a change instituted by policy change may take a long time to impose
because of administrative inertia and lack of suitable precedents.
Urban Planning in Hanoi is still a top-down process (see LUONG/STEINGRUBE 2013)
A government office is responsible for urban planning, but the development of the master
plans is carried out by several consultancy organizations (business companies or institutes)
in a bidding contest. This first phase is named ‘inviting to bid’.
Table 1.3: Government Articles Concerning Participation
Governmental decree/ Content
circular
Government’s decree o. 91-
CP, on 17-8-1994
Management committee
charter of urban planning
Chapter 2: establishment and
construction plan approval of
urban.
Circular No. 07/2008/ TT-
BXD
Guidelines and evaluation,
approval and construction
management plan.
(Part 3)
Source: GOV (2011)
Article 7.
A. The plan of approved urban construction should be made
public so that people can know and follow it.
Chapter 5:
Article 39. All urban technical infrastructure must be tested on
completion. eople’s Committees of provinces and cities are
directly responsible under the Central Government for the
management of the use and exploitation of such work.
In the process of making detailed plans of construction,
consultancy organizations shall coordinate with local
authorities to involve appropriate organizations and individuals
in the planning Formby organising meetings, and making the
information available in the information center of the city,
town, district and ward so that people can easily access and
comment on it. The comments will be assessed and reported to
the competent authorities for consideration prior to project
approval.
A committee, established by the responsible office, has to choose the “best plan”. This
second phase is called ‘bidding’. The “winner plan” is then presented to the political body
of the city (the eople’s committee of Hanoi) who make the decision whether or not to
implement the plan.
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