THE GREEN CITY The Green city project investigates how the vegetal and tree structure, now variously used as a productive resource (wood and fruits), as a means of stabilisation of the soil or as umbrella in the French colonial boulevards, can now find new applications and meanings. In Vietnam major forestation programs are conceived and realized for dierent purposes, such as ecological restoration and environmental protection, anti-erosion tool, creation of microclimates, storm protection, etc‌ The project explores the role of a green structure to canalize and frame the upcoming wave of modernization and urbanization. 14
THE INFRASTRUCTURE CITY The infrastructure project addresses the unprecedented dynamic of roads and bridge construction the region is undergoing today. Guided by a top-down logic and financed by central (national and international) funds, the new road infrastructure primarily responds to economic and symbolic ambitions (make an accessible and unified territory). The infrastructure project explores how a better integration of these roads into their landscape-, environmental- and social- context can lead to (more) qualitative development. This question is particularly relevant in the Vietnamese context where the road infrastructure is used as a shared, polyvalent public space, capable of accommodating a multiplicity of uses and users. 22
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