Students explore solutions for Vietnam’s Da Nang Riverfront
Da Nang, Vietnam 24 March 2016-- 46 students from three continents recently attended the 10-day Da Nang Summer School in the Central Vietnamese city. The summer school was spearheaded by the Rapid Planning project and jointly organized by the Technical University of Berlin, the Brandenburg Technical University Cottbus Senftenberg, the Da Nang University of Architecture and Planning and UN-Habitat.
Environmentally sustainable cities, SDG implementation, New Urban Agenda under spotlight in Hanoi
09 March 2016, Hanoi – At the recent 7th High Level Seminar on Environmentally Sustainable Cities in Vietnam, UN-Habitat promoted the issues of sustainable urbanisation, city planning, resilient city development and youth advocacy, in the context of the mobilisation of cities and stakeholders towards Habitat III, the UN conference on sustainable urban development taking place in October this year.
Vietnam’s city hosts an international workshop on tourism
Tam Ky, Vietnam 26 February 2016- Tam Ky People’s Committee, UN-Habitat, the Cities Alliance and International Urban Training Centre this week held an international workshop “Community based eco-cultural tourism development for Tam Ky City”
UN-Habitat and partners host ‘Mini-Ba’ in Vietnam
Hanoi, 27 October 2015-- As part of celebrations to mark the Urban October Month, UN-Habitat together with the Academy of Managers for Construction and Cities and Portland State University organised an Urban Leadership and Innovation ‘Mini-Ba’ in Hanoi.
Hanoi seminar explores community arts and the living space
Hanoi 8 September 2015-- Community arts, including public community art, help beautify the living space of the community with the participation of the community’s members in a variety of forms to renovate their living environment.
The topic was up for discussion at a seminar for development of a project named ‘Art for Better Space’, jointly held by the Korean Foundation, UN-Habitat and Vietnam Urban Forum (VUF) in Hanoi on September 4.
Hanoi workshop discusses international best practices in planning bill drafting
Hanoi, 26 August 2015— Top planning experts, representatives from National Assembly committees, ministries, central and local departments, research institutes, universities, civic organisations and NGOs met in Hanoi for a workshop titled ‘Drafting of the Planning Bill – International best practices and suggestions
Kick-off workshop on Rapid Planning in Danang City
Danang, Vietnam 12 March 2015 –UN-Habitat in collaboration with the Danang Institute for Social Economic Development this week organized a workshop to launch rapid planning in the city and which brought together national and foreign experts. According to Deputy Chairman of Danang People’s Committee, Mr Nguyen Ngoc Tuan, "Rapid Planning is an action-oriented research project that will address the actual and foreseeable issues of dynamic city development and the related challenges.