A STUDY ON THE CHANGE OF TRADITIONAL VILLAGES IN THE PERI-URBAN AREA OF HANOI

Abstract

Vietnamese villages have been developed for thousands of years. They contain the tangible heritage such as traditional physical fabric, cultural landscape and traditional houses reflecting the local customs and ritual belief and intangible hertage such as local festivals, customs and community structures. Recently, the Hanoi Construction Master Plan to 2030 and vision towards 2050, which was approved by the Prime Minister in July 2011, pointed out clearly that traditional villages are crucial elements in Hanoi heritage network. Since 1990, the booming of the New Urban Area in Hanoi’s peri-urban area has had several impacts on the traditional villages which have been kept intact for a long time. The paper clarifies the change of traditional villages in this area. The “change” here refers to the change in the socio-economy and the transformation of physical features. The paper consists of three main parts: (1) clarifying the main structural elements of physical fabric of traditional villages (2) giving a portrait the change of villages in Hanoi’s urban development history (3) analysing the change of villages in the city periphery through case study. The research methodology is mostly based on mapping and on-site interviews. The findings will be referenced for zoning and detailed plan in order to keep cultural values in the context of rapid urban development

Keywords: Hanoi; traditional village; peri-urban; transformation.

Received: September 12^th, 2016, revised: September 26^th, 2016, accepted: October 13^th, 2016