Rethinking city classification system in Vietnam: Towards urban sustainability and people-centered development
Rethinking city classification system in Vietnam: Towards urban sustainability and people-centered development
This paper presents an original attempt to bring forward extended perspectives about the City Classification System (CCS) in Vietnam. For many years, the CCS has played a central role the development of Vietnam national urban system as well as a motivating guideline for individual cities. However, (1) aspects of sustainable urban development are underrepresented among the CCS indicators and (2) the CCS remains a top-down, rigid policy which takes away much of the local development context and th