Introduction
We have studied in general about the urban condition in Vietnam and Hanoi. This new
period, consisting the implementation of the Doi Moi Policy, changes to a market
economy, an open door for foreign investments, will be affective for the development of
the urban areas in Vietnam. The urbanisation in Vietnam has taken place slowly. The
need for housing renovation is big. To find a way to start the rehabilitation, you have to
deal with systematic factors that are incompatible with modern management, like the
urban finance, overlapping responsibilities, difficulties with the enforcement of the legal
framework.
In legislations as the Land Law and the ordinance on residential houses and some legisla
tion about renovation you see that now it is legalised to have private property. Private
owners get more possibilities, but some responsibilities are still unclear. There is still few
comment by the inhabitants when new plans are made.
The articles about preservation of the ancient quarter are written very global and not
about the realizing. At the Architectural Research Centre (ARC) of the Hanoi University
and at the Architect and Design Centre (ADC) we found some more detailed plans.
Inhabitants
In our research we have looked how the inhabitants have repaired their houses and what
they know about plans for the Ancient Quarter. What you see at the first moment behind
the facades and the little repairs through the tunnelhouse is not enough to take actions for
a long term solution of the housingproblem. How can you make really efforts to improve
the houses without a good registration of owners and renters, enough legal security to
improve the houses, clearness about responsibility of the common places, foundation and
shell of the building? In one tunnelhouse are many families, living and working together.
They use together the common space and most of the time they have informal agreements
about the courtyard, toilet, kitchen etc., but what about repairing the roof or the stair
case?
Most of the interviewing inhabitants don't look further than their own room or the
common toilet, they want to improve their living conditions for exanjple by giving money
for renovation of the tunnelhouse or the street, but they don't know how to participate.
It is necessary to have more formal agreements, plans and legislation on lower level like
zoning plans, property division agreement etc. for more investment in the houses, but also
in the right way for a better preservation of the street and the Ancient Quarter to involve
the inhabitants e.g. to give more insight and possibilities to comment in the existing
plans.
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