Green Architecture - Solution for Sustainable Urban Developments in Viet Nam

Abstract

The future of the world has been shaped by urban cities while the sustainable urban life is a raising global goal. In recent years, Vietnam has achieved certain achievements in its urban growth and development strategies. However, due to the consequences of rapid and uncontrolled urban growths, concurrently this nation has faced with a heavy challenging pressure and visible barriers to the ability to housing’s supply and construction, environmental pollutions, greenhouse effects, climate change … So that, urban development in a smart and sustainable way has being called on efforts to find a solution for these difficult and polemic problems in Vietnam recently. As a persistent effort, the model of green architecture, the green buildings play an important role to strengthen strategies and solutions for sustainable urban development. This study was based on an urban ecology approach; get along with the exploitation of secondary data sources, as well as observations of the authors from development practices in some major cities in Vietnam.

Keywords

• urbanization
• green architecture
• environmental pollutions
• sustainable urban development