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Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://epub.vgu.edu.vn/handle/dlibvgu/923
Title: From Saigon to Ho Chi Minh City: The dual pattern of spatial transformation of the city and its central area throughout history
Authors: Vu Ngoc Khanh 
Keywords: Transformational process;Angular segment analysis
Issue Date: 2016
Publisher: Vietnamese-German University
Abstract: 
Ho Chi Minh City, a 300-year-old city, and its center have passed through many phases of its development process. From 17th century to present, the entire city has significantly transformed its structure and spatial form from the area considered as a Khmer seaport to the current area formed by the combination between Saigon, the old capital of the French colony of Cochin china, and the surrounding Gia Dinh province (the name “Saigon” is still unofficially widely used). This spatial transformation caused by the major changes in political structure and economic reforms initiated in Vietnam in 1986 led to the following changes in lifestyles, economic activities, urban morphology, cultural identities, labor market and the environment. As a result, the city center is the area mainly affected by this phenomenon due to its leading role of the entire city. The aim of this study is to investigate the patterns and regularities behind this transformational process. The research topic, therefore, focuses mainly on the patterns of changes in spatial morphology of Ho Chi Minh and its central area through the process of development. By using space syntax methods in analyzing urban structure transforming through various stages of the development process, especially angular segment analysis measured by metric system, this research reveals the dual pattern of the spatially transformational process throughout seven different stages of history from 1882 to present. This thesis is expected not only to carry out the new findings in this field but also to inspire other scholars, in general, and Vietnamese researchers, in specific, to conduct further investigations on this subject.
URI(1): http://epub.vgu.edu.vn/handle/dlibvgu/923
Appears in Collections:Sustainable Urban Development (SUD)

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