Water-Based Development for the Expansion of Urban Area in Ho Chi Minh City

Being located at a strategic point of the sea mouth, Ho Chi Minh city is vulnerable to the impacts brought by climate change, which is inherent in the raising of overall water level and a decrease in drainage capacity due to the alarmingly encroachment into the water by the urbanization process. Despite its rich history as a settlement formed by rivers and a network of canals, this system is gradually interrupted and becoming the backside of residential areas. More extremely it seems that within the last decades of urban development starting booming, the attention in urban planning for water infrastructure and water systems has faded out. The expansion city incorporated many projects which are dealing very locality and small scale fixing for water tissue within the project site, there are no plans for dealing water systematically and connectedly. The research paper aims to propose a new water network as an urban frame and development, and simultaneously discussing morphology of integrating water space into new urban development.