future urban highlights

To realize the above orientation, recently, many ideas on planning the alluvial and mid-bank areas of the Red River have been put forward to supplement public spaces, exploit cultural and landscape elements; ensure flood drainage issues and respect natural ecological development.

Harmonious urban development on both sides of the river

With an area of ​​about 23 hectares, the Red River sandbank is a large green space under the management of Hoan Kiem, Tay Ho, Ba Dinh and Long Bien districts. Recently, the Capital Planning for the period 2021 - 2030, with a vision to 2050 and the Capital Construction Master Plan to 2045, with a vision to 2065 were approved by the Government .

In these two plans, the Red River is identified as one of the five important spatial axes in the development of the Capital, with the development orientation being green space, central landscape of the city, and harmonious urban development on both sides of the river.

Red River planning is closely linked to socio -economic development. Photo: Nguyen Nam

At the same time, Article 17 of the 2024 Capital Law also stipulates the concentration of resources and priority to organize the implementation of the Red River Zoning Plan in accordance with the Capital Planning and the Capital General Planning; Hanoi City is allowed to build a cultural industrial center on the river banks, the Red River floating banks and other areas with advantages in terms of cultural space location in accordance with the planning...

According to experts, the planning orientation and regulations in the Capital Law are really the foundation to turn the Red River into a distinctive highlight of Hanoi in the future. The Red River will become a green space axis, with an attractiveness not only within the two sides of the river but also spreading, creating a driving force for the development of the entire Hanoi Capital to the North, East, Northeast as well as the South of the Capital.

Chairman of the Vietnam Urban Development Planning Association Tran Ngoc Chinh shared that the research and renovation of the Red River's sandbank and alluvial bank into a cultural and tourist park of the capital is a breakthrough solution to effectively exploit the land fund and potential advantages, the natural beauty of the Red River, creating open, green spaces, meeting the needs of entertainment and sports, attractive sightseeing for tourists, solving the problem of lack of public spaces, especially cultural spaces and art exhibitions of the capital's people.

The creation of recreational and cultural parks is an important and indispensable part in large cities, urban areas or densely populated areas. This also limits violations of construction order, improves environmental sanitation, and increases the proportion of green space for historical inner-city areas.

Many creative ideas

Under the direction of the Hanoi People's Committee, the competition for planning ideas for a multi-functional cultural park in the middle and coastal areas of the Red River organized by 4 districts: Hoan Kiem, Ba Dinh, Long Bien, Tay Ho helps to find serious and dedicated researches that contribute to Hanoi in developing land funds and exploiting diverse areas of the middle and coastal areas. Thereby, contributing to the roadmap to realizing the planning of the central landscape axis of the Red River.

Participating in the competition, the "Green Quai Vac Park" project carefully considered the circulation in the ecosystem; changes in nature, especially the impact of the Red River water level. Talking to reporters of the Economic & Urban Newspaper, Architect Nguyen Duc Trung said: "Through the Yagi storm, we can see that Hanoi really needs more green spaces in the Red River area. With the project, we have calculated all construction factors and infrastructure items up to flood level 2, equivalent to a water level of 11.5m".

Meanwhile, a representative of the Green Lungs Hanoi Joint Venture shared: "In our plan, we propose that the entire low-lying area in the middle of the Red River will only be used for growing crops, agricultural cultivation, and 2-storey stilt houses. The first floor is an open space, used when there is no flood, the second floor is a closed space that can be used for living or storing belongings when there is a flood."

Referring to the planning of the Red River axis, Dr. Architect Phan Dang Son - Chairman of the Vietnam Association of Architects said that nearly 30 carefully researched competition plans came from prestigious design units and joint ventures domestically and internationally. That shows the strong response from architects and planners to the floating area in the middle and along the Red River. Many plans put forward unique ideas, meeting the wishes of Hanoi City to add public spaces, exploit cultural and landscape elements; ensure flood drainage issues and respect natural ecological development.

According to architect Phan Dang Son, the cultural park model will be suitable when implementing the planning of the Red River sandbank and especially placed in the common space of the Red River rich in cultural and historical values. The park takes the urban heritage of Long Bien Bridge as the center, the landscape of the Red River as the background, forming cultural space lines connecting with the heritage on both banks and the entire green corridor of the Red River.

Dr. Architect Nguyen Van Tuyen and Dr. Architect Nguyen Thu Huong - Hanoi University of Civil Engineering also shared that the Red River sandbank park can be organized according to the model of an eco-tourism theme park. The city needs to promote the main potential of the landscape and unique ecological environment to form an ecological park associated with the development of a semi-flooded forest system, ecological nurseries, sandbanks, water surfaces... The ecological park combined with the Long Bien Bridge heritage becomes a spectacular cultural ecological landscape of the capital, with tourism activities that can be exploited such as picnics, exploration, ecological experiences, camping, and boating.

 

Clause 2, Article 14 of the Capital Law clearly states: concentrate resources, prioritize the implementation of the zoning plan of the Red River and Duong River in accordance with the Capital Planning and the Capital General Planning; allow the construction of new dike routes in accordance with the flood prevention and control planning of diked rivers, dike planning and other related planning to effectively exploit land funds;

On the river banks, it is allowed to exist a number of existing residential areas and to build new works and houses at appropriate rates according to the flood prevention and control planning of the river with dikes and other related planning; the remaining river banks and floating areas are allowed to build works for public spaces and works serving public purposes, but the river banks and floating areas must not be elevated to ensure that they do not obstruct the flow.

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