The Role of Public Art in Forming and Expanding Cultural Spaces from Saigon, Giadinh, to Ho Chi Minh City

Ho Chi Minh City is one of the economic, scientific and cultural centers of Vietnam. It has been still in the advancing impetus of development and construction. The city appears in many structures in contemporary styles along with existing architecture in the French colonial period and in the Republic of Vietnam. It also displays itself as a multi-manners and multi-cultural city in architecture, planning and fine arts. The city complex atmosphere needs public arts in making urban aesthetics and the cultural spaces. Public arts contribute to creating a city brand, tourist attraction, and local economic development. To find out the invaluable role of public arts in the city’s progress and to propose solutions for connecting urban art areas to architectural design, urban planning, and urban design is an emerging issue today.