The exhibition “Hanoi – The Future Metropolis” with the participation of French curators Sylvie Fanchette, Emmanuel Cerise, and Amélie Codugnella will be held at L’Espace, 24 Trang Tien, Hanoi on September 1-2.

Located at “the bend of the Red River,” Ha Noi is one of the oldest capitals in Southeast Asia. Over the centuries, the city consists of a dense villages substrate. 

With economic liberalization of the 1980s, Ha Noi encounter many obstacles to extend: the lack of a real land market, very high densities, a food self-sufficiency policy that limits expropriations and hydraulic stress in this vulnerable delta.

Since the beginning of the new millennium, the change operated by the state planners and real estate investors caused the problem of integrating villages, maintaining a green belt and protection against flooding. 

The merger between urban and rural areas, that has always been the specificity of the Red River Delta, seems compromised.

From a rich collection of maps and field studies, this exhibition shows how urbanization level is facing with “top” metropolisation urbanization. 

Combining several disciplinary approaches to spatial and social scales in a dynamic perspective, it measures the impact of major urban development projects on the life of villages in big cities.