Prefab

Prefab

The housing problem of Hanoi shares its similarity with other emerging cities in the region of South East Asia as well as other locations throughout Latin America and Africa, in its conflict between formal and informal developments as well as its absorption of different colonized cultures. Yet, it is different from those cities in that the different ideologies are not as clear-cut and are not isolated in separate segments of the city. Instead, the city has exposed a great dynamic mixture of different foreign ideologies with the indigenous culture in its urban morphology (Geertman, 2007). This unique symbiosis, however, is in danger of being broken because of the unprecedented increase of urban population.