SUBDIVISION PLANNING SCHEME MUST EXPLOIT GREEN TREES TO THE UTMOST
On May 13, 2013, the Ministry of Construction issued the Circular No. 06/2013/TT-BXD guiding the content of urban design.
Within that, urban design in general planning scheme shall determine the existing inner city; tentative area for new development; area of natural and artificial landscape; area for preservation and special area; orientate urban image and architectural space based on nature and development objective of each area; orientate spatial organization of policy – administrative, culture - sport, financial, trading, service, tourism, health centers to be suitable with urban natures and functions; to orientate spatial organization of urban gateway area regarding landscape architectural space, determine position and illustrate ideas on cubes of facilities for prominent spots according to main traffic directions and routes to enter urban area; to orientate architecture for main road axes, typical urban areas; to propose main axes as characteristic of urban area; to propose preservation, exploitation of the existing natural landscape in the main spatial axes organization or to determine scale, nature of squares; to research architectural space of landscape and so on in the square spatial organization or to determine position of prominent spots for entire urban area or each urban section in spatial organization at urban prominent spots.
For system of trees and landscape: To select kinds of trees that have colors, sizes in line with urban route and available in localities. Solution to design water surface in combination with trees ensuring conformity with surrounding landscape.In case two routes of old urban area and new urban area are connected, design solutions of architectural space and landscape should be proposed to ensure a harmonious connection between new urban route and old urban route.
This Circular takes effect on June 27, 2013 and replaces Articles 8 and 14 of the Circular No. 10/2010/TT-BXD dated August 11, 2010 of the Ministry of Construction on prescribing dossier of each urban planning type.
