Monday, April 6, 2009

Visions for the Greater Hanoi 5. City of Lakes


1. In order to guide future development of the city, a bold gesture of creating new water bodies will be undertaken. This happens on a large scale, outside of the city.

2. The new lakes have a multitude of uses. Location, size and shape of the lakes relate to their functioning. The most important functions are recreation, storm water drainage, recharging of the aquifers and water retention during flooding. The largest lakes are found near the confluence of the Lo, Da and Red Rivers, and near the confluence of Day and Con Rivers.

3. The lakes have strong structuring capacity (it’s hard to build in them), they can increase land value and give soil for other landfills. This can be used for dikes or for urban development projects. Therefore urbanization will occur in indicated places. The areas directly south and west of the city are suitable for further urbanization. Also to the far west, between Con River and the mountains, urbanization around existing lakes can take place.

4. The water bodies can be combined with infrastructure water purification, along infrastructure, in a wetland or watershed. Also they work together with forest and vegetation systems.

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