Vietnam - Japan “Sakura Science Exchange Program”

November 2020

Place-based TOD
from Saigon to Ho Chi Minh City
Vu Viet Anh
University of Architecture Ho Chi Minh City
 GIADINH –
“ĐÔ”
citadel
tax collection

CHO LON –
“THỊ”
market
sell, storage
CHOLON

SAIGON

BEN THANH
Station - Citadel

THU THIEM

Sea connection
 NEW BEN THANH MARKET
With RAIL

OLD BEN THANH MARKET

With RIVER
 HO CHI MINH CITY
Megacity “want” MRT

• Population increases, properties price rises, urbanization of suburban accelerates

• The further distance of daily routine, the more barrier to develop equally and comprehensively.
The urban rail transit has been “imported” to solve the
city’s traffic jam and infrastructure overload
Planned Rail and the planned city

2 1
2
1 6
2 3
2 1 5+4
Motorcycle Culture
How to adapt to MRT culture

If we want to choose a symbolic thing that integrates economic and cultural characteristics
of Vietnam's society today, the motorcycle is probably the most appropriate
Whatsoever means of moving changing,
there is one thing never change,
MOVE MEANS CONNECTING PLACES
 A NEW APPROACH
A PLACE-BASED-TOD

TODTRANSIT
MAKING
ORIENTED PLACE
THE NATURE OF TRANSPORTATION IS TO CONNECT ONE DEVELOPMENT
STARTING POINT TO ANOTHER DESTINATION, IN SHORT IS
CONNECTING PLACES

The shortest distance to reach a destination via railway is to make

the station areas become "places“
TOD ACTUALLY IS

MAKING PLACES

THREE-TYPES OF PLACE
A NEW TOD PATTERN
Three types of Place-based-TOD

Three types of TOD-ID assessment toolmodel