BY MY NGUYEN GIS FALL 2012

Vietnam’s Urbanization Focus City: Ho Chi Minh city, urbanization and slum

• How did Vietnam urbanize in the last decade?

• How does urbanization give an impact to people’s access to housing in Ho Chi Minh city,?

Question?

Methodology

• Analyzing percentage of Vietnam population change

• Cities Censusing to see which type of cities are growing and which region is the most urbanized

• Raster Analysis to see the change of urban area in Ho Chi Minh city

• Vietnam is in an incipient stage of urbanization transitioning to an intermediate stage with rapid urbanization (currently 30% urban with 3.4% urban population growth per year)

• Population growth in the past ten years has been fastest in Vietnam’s largest cities of Hanoi and HCMC, their surrounding regions.

• Slum is in the package of urbanization.

What are the results?

Problems

• Data is not in a format that could be usable

• Recreated of data sets

HO CHI MINH CITY_2000

HO CHI MINH CITY_2010