Inevitable trend for sustainable, green urban development
Green urban development is a substantial global trend, aiming to ease the impact of socio-economic development on the environment and move towards sustainable development. At the Sustainable Green Urban Development Forum organised by the Economic and Urban Newspaper on December 12, experts and managers discussed challenges and policies to promote green urban areas in Vietnam.
International experience on waste management, traffic and decentralised urban models were shared at the forum, providing a new direction for the development of urban green spaces. The forum also emphasised the important role of data and community participation in developing and implementing effective green urban policies.
National Assembly Deputy Dr. Nguyen Duc Kien stated decentralised renewable energy centres could be used to support new urban areas. But from an economic perspective, construction costs in non-urban areas will be cheaper due to land prices and other costs. Thus, the trend of expanding resettlement and development areas to the outskirts of the urban core. This is the urban development model of ‘oil spills’ or decentralisation that many European countries have applied.
